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  • Mireille Gansel
    Mireille Gansel
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    Words as Shelter

    Mireille Gansel’s new collection of poetry teaches us how to make ourselves at home in a broken world

    byJake Marmer
  • French writer Jean Raspail, the self-declared consul of the 'Kingdom of Patagonia', poses with Patagonia's coat of arms (L) and the British flag he seized on British rocks in the Channel September 1, 1998. Friends of Raspail hoisted Patagonia's flag in place of the Union Jack on August 30th over the Minquiers, a deserted series of rocks south of the Channel island of Jersey. Raspail offered to return the British flag but said the handover must be on neutral ground, a Paris bar.
    French writer Jean Raspail, the self-declared consul of the 'Kingdom of Patagonia', poses with Patagonia's coat of arms (L) and the British flag he seized on British rocks in the Channel September 1, 1998. Friends of Raspail hoisted Patagonia's flag in place of the Union Jack on August 30th over the Minquiers, a deserted series of rocks south of the Channel island of Jersey. Raspail offered to return the British flag but said the handover must be on neutral ground, a Paris bar.
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    A Visit With Jean Raspail, Creator of ‘The Great Replacement’ Theory

    Interview with the former Boy Scout and writer of ‘The Camp of the Saints’

    byMarc Weitzmann
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    The Greatest Literary Impostor of All Time Deserves To Be Remembered

    Romain Gary’s many life stories—including that of his pseudonymous, prizewinning French ‘cousin’ Émile Ajar—still hold sway, 35 years to the day after his death

    byVictoria Baena
  • Patrick Modiano gives a press conference in Paris, on Oct. 9, 2014, following the announcement earlier in the day of his Nobel Literature Prize.(Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
    Patrick Modiano gives a press conference in Paris, on Oct. 9, 2014, following the announcement earlier in the day of his Nobel Literature Prize.(Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Nobel Prize Winner Patrick Modiano Summons the Shadow-World of Postwar French Jewry

    Born by his own account of ‘the mud of the Occupation,’ the French author remains haunted, like his compatriots, by memory

    byClémence Boulouque
  • Heydrich in his office, 1934.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
    Heydrich in his office, 1934.(Deutsches Bundesarchiv)
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    Haunted by Hitler’s Hangman

    The French quasi-novel HHhH, by Laurent Binet, tells the tale of assassinated Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich while wondering whether it need be retold

    byAdam Kirsch
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