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The vegetarian, Kang Han, 2007 I discovered by chance that Kang Han won the Nobel Prize for Literature this year. When I bought "The Vegetarian," I had never heard of...

Fool’s gold, Maro Duka, 1979 “Under the blazing sun, there were droves of buses outside the Museum. The coming and going of the hordes of tourists disgusted me [...]. We...

Old baggage, Lissa Evans, 2018 When I read Mary Ann Sieghart's Guardian article “Why do some men misbehave?” I immediately thought of old baggage. Whenever we talk about sad cultural...

Men explain things to me, Rebecca Solnit, 2008 The episode is famous: at a party, two friends are the youngest invited and are approached by a man; they start a...

It’s not about the burqa, Mariam Khan, 2019 Every time I hear about the issue of the veil, I don't think of Islam but of Christianity. The first image that...

Sustainable this, sustainable that, Stacy Alaimo, 2012 Winters in Northern Italy were very harsh, at least until twenty years ago. From my grandparents' room window, you could see Pian Cavallo, the...