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Culture February 06, 2021
Girls Against God
The narrator of Girls Against God is a goth from southern Norway’s “white Scandinavian paradise”: she wears velour in “provincial black” sourced from the local shopping centre, and cherishes the aesthetics of black metal, corpse paint …
Culture September 19, 2020
Having and Being Had
Eula Biss thinks she and her husband, John, are just like everyone else in the neighbourhood, but he disagrees: “No … we’re nothing like them, I’m nothing like them.” Biss identifies as middle class, John as white trash, and throughout Having …
Culture December 12, 2020
Long Live the Post Horn!
“Why couldn’t I just feel the way I was used to? Except that was exactly what I didn’t want.” Ellinor is a mixed-up person: she is always rushing about in order to hurry through bad feelings; she is concealing a hidden grief from her boyfriend, …
Culture June 13, 2020
Minor Detail
In its broad strokes, Minor Detail is a blistering allegory about state violence and the conscription of women’s bodies. In its minor details, it offers a piercing account of everyday life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. A …
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