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Geordie Cheetham 22/02/2024 Geordie Cheetham 22/02/2024

Does Michel Houellebecq Still Matter? Part II: The H.P. Lovecraft biography

In this article, Geordie Cheetham looks at Houellebecq’s first published work, a biography of the American author H. P. Lovecraft. How does disgust with the modern world become a fitting object of literary study, when Houellebecq approvingly cites Lovecraft’s disdain for all forms of realism? And what does a corpse surrounded by shopping trolleys Nouvelles Galeries have to do with it?

Freya John, European Columnist 16/12/2023 Freya John, European Columnist 16/12/2023

Bas(qu)ing in difference: the Beauty of the Basque identity II: Pin(tx)ch me, a life changing food experience

In this entertaining excursion of an article, CLC columnist Freya John takes us on a culinary tour of Bilbao as she recounts her love affair with the ‘incredible, edible, small delights: pintxos.’

Maddie Hazelden, Columnist 07/07/2023 Maddie Hazelden, Columnist 07/07/2023

Germanistik II: In search of the female writer… along the shelves of the bookshop

Through her insightful comparison of Fontane’s Effie Briest with Gabriele Reuter’s Aus guter Familie, German columnist Maddie Hazelden traces both the shelves of a bookshop and the history of literature in this intriguing critique of German literary practices.