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L as in lesbian, love and literature

WOMEN: Lesbians are the heroes of Diana Souham's book. It is about the development of French modernism. Lesbian women in the early 1900th century were interested in developing, contributing to, and supporting literary modernism in an attempt to break with patriarchy. Paris was like an asylum for sexual refugees.
Marianne Solberg -

Minorities and mild anarchism

MODERN TIMES CONVERSATIONS: This time we met a fearless activist and anarchist. After a long life, he summarized a thoughtfulness in the areas of anarchism, minorities, fear/violence – and love. Audun Engh was ill when the conversation took place, and died a few months later.
Truls Lie -

"Rather break the law than the poor"

ACCOMMODATION: London, a futuristic skyscraper city, a neo-Tokyo, a city in a country ruled by an authoritarian and nationalist elite. Where did Corbyn's manifesto for massive development of municipal housing go?
Alf Jørgen Schnell -

Y-block in infinity light

ARCHITECTURE: The State Department building, the Y-block, is reputed to be the ugliest building in Oslo. It has been hated for its brutalist aesthetics. But how much do we, or the state itself, really know about the construction and thinking behind the Y-block?
Marianne Solberg -

I want to go home to the animals

Suicide plays no small role in Chinese Young-moon.
Kurt Sweeney -

New from the thickets

Some people do not know their own best: They publish magazines.
Kjetil Korslund -

Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS. PO Box 3113 Elisenberg, 0207 Oslo. Chief editor: Truls Lie

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