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Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

Impulses, Sources, Trajectories: Douglas Unger on Discovering Why You Write

“What kind of writer do I want to be? Where does my writing come from?”

By Douglas Unger | August 29, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

Annabel Abbs-Streets on the Idiosyncratic Way the Beauvoirs Hiked Through the World

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

How Jean-Paul Sartre managed to spend his military service working on his novel.

How Jean-Paul Sartre managed to spend his military service working on his novel.

By Emily Temple | September 20, 2022

How Jean-Paul Sartre's relentless pranking forced his teacher to resign.

How Jean-Paul Sartre's relentless pranking forced his teacher to resign.

By Emily Temple | June 21, 2022

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

When Iris Murdoch Met Jean-Paul Sartre

Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman on a Chance Encounter Between a Young Novelist and an Aging Philosopher

By Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman | May 11, 2022

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On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s <em

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Palace of Flies">On the Post-Apocalyptic Landscape of Walter Kappacher’s Palace of Flies

Michael P. Steinberg Locates Echoes and Ghosts in a Broken Austria

By Michael P. Steinberg | May 5, 2022

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Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

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By Rafia Zakaria | May 5, 2017

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By Emily Temple | February 14, 2017

At the Existentialist Café

At the Existentialist Café

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By Lit Hub Excerpts | March 24, 2016