Category Archives: Culture

Whereabouts Jhumpa Lahiri

A time and a place

Jhumpar Lahiri’s Whereabouts is an exquisite examination of one single woman’s life. The short chapters form a series of vignettes, dropping few clues about where this woman lives and what…

Peripheries 3

Peripheries

How boys (blue) versus girls (red) used the space in a playground in Catalunya in Spain While men are mostly focusing on the path ahead, women are scanning the peripheries…

I Remain in Darkness Annie Ernaux

How can I survive that kiss?

Parent-child relationships are complex and never more so than when the roles become reversed. Annie Ernaux presents the sparse truth in I Remain in Darkness. The thoughts she wrote down…

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