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The Wealth of Asteroids: Berfrois Interviews Martin Elvis

The Wealth of Asteroids: Berfrois Interviews Martin Elvis

The penalty in rocket fuel for mining on Mars is pretty big. Asteroids are better...

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Berfrois Interviews Abraham T. Zere

Berfrois Interviews Abraham T. Zere

My short stories might read as slightly unconventional in Tigrinya literature...

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Bibi to Bennett: Berfrois Interviews John Lyndon

Bibi to Bennett: Berfrois Interviews John Lyndon

How will the ousting of Benjamin Netanyahu affect the future of Israeli politics?

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Asian American Buddhism: Nancy Chu Interviews Chenxing Han

Asian American Buddhism: Nancy Chu Interviews Chenxing Han

May We Gather: A National Buddhist Memorial Ceremony for Asian American Ancestors ended with the Buddhist leaders processing in pairs out of the temple while holding one of two long white threads emanating from the Buddha statue on the altar...

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The Sea’s Breathin: Medha Singh Interviews Gregory Leadbetter

The Sea’s Breathin: Medha Singh Interviews Gregory Leadbetter

I first met Gregory Leadbetter in Trivandrum, in its notorious, sweltering heat. Curiously enough, I'd been placed in a couple of panels on love and feminism...

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Jessica Sequeira Interviews H.S. Shivaprakash

Jessica Sequeira Interviews H.S. Shivaprakash

H.S. Shivaprakash (Hulkuntemath Shivamurthy Sastri Shivaprakash) is a poet, playwright and translator who writes in the Kannada language.

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Patriarchy’s Paradoxical Persistence: Berfrois Interviews Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

Patriarchy’s Paradoxical Persistence: Berfrois Interviews Carol Gilligan and Naomi Snider

Our work began with a question: Why do we sacrifice the pleasures of human connection in order to claim our place as “one of the boys” or as a “good” woman?

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Translation: Berfrois Interviews Charlotte Mandell

Translation: Berfrois Interviews Charlotte Mandell

Based in the Hudson Valley, Charlotte Mandell has rapidly become one of the world’s most acclaimed translators from French into English...

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A National Education Service: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn

A National Education Service: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn

Our education system divided our nation, broadly along the lines of social class, choosing winners and losers at an early age...

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Carmen Troncoso Interviews Ida Vitale

Carmen Troncoso Interviews Ida Vitale

Ida Vitale is a poet, translator, essayist, professor and literary critic in Uruguay. She is a member of the artistic movement called the “Generation of ’45” along with Mario Benedetti...

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Controlled Experience: Berfrois Interviews Dimitris Lyacos

Controlled Experience: Berfrois Interviews Dimitris Lyacos

Dimitris Lyacos is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy, which has developed as a work in progress over the course of thirty years...

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Czesław Miłosz’s Century: Berfrois Interviews Andrzej Franaszek

Czesław Miłosz’s Century: Berfrois Interviews Andrzej Franaszek

As you can imagine, there was no need to edit much in his articles. But I would ask him if he was sure about something. Miłosz was very willing to write and work...

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Digital Capital: Berfrois Interviews Kenneth Goldsmith

Digital Capital: Berfrois Interviews Kenneth Goldsmith

Painting reacted in a smart way to its crisis of representation and became something else. Writing didn’t...

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Matthew O’Shannessy talks to Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan

Matthew O’Shannessy talks to Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan

Drawing on the work of English philosopher Nina Power and research into the techniques of crowd control, Australian artists Amy Spiers and Catherine Ryan have created a satirical work amplifying the “camp” aesthetics found within the organized policing of public spaces.

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CJ Chanco talks to Marc H. Ellis

CJ Chanco talks to Marc H. Ellis

Marc Ellis has written over two dozen texts on the themes of justice, reconciliation, peace and conflict in Latin America and the Middle East. He is best known for his work on the links between the Holocaust and the Israeli-Palestine conflict.

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State School Myths: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn (Again)

State School Myths: Berfrois Interviews Melissa Benn (Again)

As for our own free schools, there is mounting evidence that not only do many of these face as many, if not more, problems than the schools they were designed to replace

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These Coffees Are Making Me Thirsty by Russell Bennetts

These Coffees Are Making Me Thirsty by Russell Bennetts

Before her coffee, my mom was all body and no voice. She’d walk to the kitchen in silence, looking extra thin.

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