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Banana-Danger: Just the Facts
Read more: Banana-Danger: Just the FactsOn the language of the news and telling stories Quick! Look behind you. There’s an explosion, and someone is furiously backflipping over crocodiles, while at the same time clutching three incredibly small animals in one hand and performing an unbelievable interpretative dance of her religious beliefs with the other. Meanwhile, the stock market has…
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Writer’s Block #26
Read more: Writer’s Block #26We are so, so excited to present to you the first Writer’s Block of this academic year: Writer’s Block #26. This issue is all about revolution, something that has been very prominent at the UvA this year, with lots of submissions from our own editorial board as our own little rebellion! So sit back, grab…
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End of the Watch
Read more: End of the WatchA discussion of Harper Lee’s long-expected second novel Go Set a Watchman When 31-year-old Harper Lee first entered the office of publishing house J. B. Lippincott & Co., neither she, nor her editor could have expected her manuscript to become the global phenomenon it has become. The manuscript, titled Atticus, fell into the hands of…
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Erasure Poem: Dream Actually Happened
Read more: Erasure Poem: Dream Actually HappenedA couple of weeks ago, I read the short story Traumnovelle for an elective course on the various interplays between literature and film. Also known as Dream Story, this novella was written in 1926 by the Austrian Arthur Schnitzler, a kindred spirit of Sigmund Freud. In 1999, the acclaimed director Stanley Kubrick turned Schnitzler’s book…
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