Fake and Fiction
No more hours spent fact-checking! At the halfway point of Donald Trump’s presidency, everyone knows that fiction has replaced the domination of facts in the guise of the fake. Literary ...
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Thomas Strässle, born 1972 in Baden, Switzerland, is a Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Zurich and head of the transdisciplinary Institute Y at the Bern University of the Arts. He is also a trained concert flutist and works as a freelance musician. He lives in Munich. Most recent publications by Hanser: Gelassenheit. Über eine andere Haltung zur Welt (2013). https://www.rose.uzh.ch/de/avl/persons/straessle.html
Serenity
Serenity: so many of us long for it, so very few possess it. It’s become the ultimate buzz-word reflecting the greatest longing of a stressed-out society. But what does serenity really mean, ...
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Salt, says Peter Handke, is like strong emotions such as love, anger or madness, in that it is an element »with which the great old tales are told, and without which there would be no stories at ...
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