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Dec 22, 2024 | 
orangeville.com | Rachel Cusk |Michel Houellebecq |Rachel Kushner |Anne Carson
Paradeby Rachel Cusk Harper Perennial, $29.99Reading “Parade” is like driving quickly in a tiny car up the side of a steep mountain. Cusk, the author of the Outline trilogy, switchbacks bracingly between multiple narratives — all about different artists named G — as she races past comforting fictions about motherhood and art on her way to something more true. Sentence by sentence, Cusk’s command is stunning.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
redhot.sg | Michel Houellebecq |Shaun Whiteside
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Michel Houellebecq |Shaun Whiteside |Clement Yong
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
economictimes.indiatimes.com | Michel Houellebecq
AgenciesUndoubtedly there used to be a form of domestic happiness, connected to the functioning of the whole, which we are no longer able to understand; there was undoubtedly the pleasure of constituting a functional organism, one that was adequate, conceived with the purpose of accomplishing a discrete series of tasks - and these tasks, through repetition, constituted a discrete series of days.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
astralflight.substack.com | Michel Houellebecq
Astral Flight Simulation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. A REMEDY FOR THE EXHAUSTION OF BEINGAstral Flight Simulation is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Michel Houellebecq |Alan Hollinghurst |Virginie Despentes |Maylis de Kerangal
Michel Houellebecq, trans. from the French by Shaun Whiteside. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $32 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-60842-2Houellebecq (Submission) wraps a ponderous family drama around a plodding near-future political thriller. It’s November 2026 and Paris has been rocked by a series of mysterious cyberattacks and disturbing deepfake videos, including an apparent decapitation of France’s finance minister, Bruno Juge.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
corriere.it | Michel Houellebecq
L’intervento dell'autore di «Annientare»: «Questo voto è più che mai un voto di classe» All’inizio sono rimasto stupefatto, come tutti, da queste elezioni anticipate che mi sembravano irrazionali e suicide.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
biblioracle.substack.com | Salman Rushdie |J.M. Coetzee |Michel Houellebecq |John Warner
(This post may be too long for some email clients. Click through to see the full post.)The title of Sal Khan’s new book, Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That’s a Good Thing), makes two implicit claims:AI will revolutionize education. The AI revolution is “a good thing.”It is strange, then, that the book makes no real attempt to grapple with the implications of its own argument.
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May 5, 2024 | 
ilmessaggero.it | Michel Houellebecq
Pubblichiamo la prefazione scritta da Michel Houellebecq al suo stesso saggio “H.P.Lovecraft, Contro il mondo, contro la vita”, in uscita il prossimo 8 maggio sul maestro dell’horror americano. Il libro (edito in Francia nel 1991) è edito da Wudz edizioni, nuovo marchio che ha esordito lo scorso marzo. Nella prefazione, Stephen King spiega perché il genio di Lovecraft ha influenzato moltissimi autori posteriori, da Flannery O’Connor e Tennessee Williams fino a Robert Bloch e Joyce Carol Oates.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
compactmag.com | Michel Houellebecq
Quelques mois dans ma vieBy Michel HouellebecqFlammarion, 112 pages, €12.80The philosopher Auguste Comte haunts Michel Houellebecq’s body of work. The characters in his novels are often obsessive readers of Comte, a pretext for Houellebecq to weave substantial excerpts from the 19th-century figurehead of “positivism” into his narratives.
