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Ancient tales are back in fashion – for telling it like it is
Fairytale and myth can hold a mirror to our troubled times – as evidenced by the refugees walking the Canterbury Tales route, says Guardian culture editor Claire Armitstead.
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The Problem With Writing About Florida
"This isn't your place to write about. It's barely mine." By Kristen Arnet. (June 28, 2017)
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When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion
The author on her love for ‘The Prisoner,’ her pilgrimage to the town where it was filmed, and the pressure she felt as an autistic person to downplay the intensity of her interests. By Sarah Kurchak.
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A history of alienation
In the postwar period it was understood to be the fundamental malaise of modern life. Why aren’t we ‘alienated’ any more? By Martin Jay.
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A syndrome stranger than sci-fi – how limbs can get a mind of their own
Aeon Videos
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Can Europe’s new xenophobes reshape the continent?
From Poland to Austria and Hungary, a new nationalism and hostility to migrants are rife. What does the spread of ‘illiberalism’ mean for the rest of Europe? By Philip Oltermann.
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The Malignant Melancholy
There are, broadly, two kinds of structural lonelinesses. One is the benign loneliness of the socially alienated, the other the malignant melancholy of the erstwhile master. By Amba Azaad.
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What Do We Do with the Art of Monstrous Men?
They did or said something awful, and made something great. They are monster geniuses, and I don’t know what to do about them. By Claire Dederer.
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Alienation Is Killing Americans and Japanese
The stories have become all too familiar in Japan, though people often do their best to ignore them. An elderly or middle-aged person, usually a man, is found dead, at home in his apartment, frequently right in his bed. It has been days, weeks, or even months... By Amos Zeeberg.
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How to Cross a Field of Snow
A primer for reconnoitering the unknown. By Robert Moor.
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Are You Lost In The World Like Me?
Moby and The Void Pacific Choir
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The Embers
Vagabon
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Cairo Without End
In his quiet film In the Last Days of the City, Tamer El Said brilliantly captures a struggle I’ve had for years: how to pin down what it is about Cairo that leaves us feeling as if we exist in a no man’s land, somewhere between past and present, constantly searching, never quite there. By Yasmine El Rashidi.
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Hannah Arendt on Loneliness as the Common Ground for Terror and How Tyrannical Regimes Use Isolation as a Weapon of Oppression
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” By Maria Popova.
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How Will Our Religions Handle the Discovery of Alien Life?
What would your priest, rabbi, or imam say if we discovered alien life? By David A. Weintraub.
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What Was the Nerd?
The myth of the bullied white outcast loner is helping fuel a fascist resurgence. By Willie Osterweil.
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Spiritual Blackout in America: Election 2016
The rule of Big Money and its attendant culture of cupidity and mendacity have led to our grand moment of spiritual blackout. By Cornel West.
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American Idiot
Green Day
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The Chase in the Ghost Train
Yann Kornowicz
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The Rio You Didn’t Know Existed
Vincent Catala Represents the City Beyond Clichés. Breaking News: Rio de Janeiro is not all sun, parties and samba.
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