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  • Why I read Deleuze

    For Ronald Bogue, A Thousand Plateaus is Gilles Deleuze's finest piece of work. In this blog, he explains why it's one-of-a-kind.

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Normal People and the strangeness of other people

Towards the end of Sally Rooney’s acclaimed novel Normal People, the two main characters, Connell and Marianne, talk sleepily one morning about whether it’s possible ever really to know another person. ‘I guess everyone is a mystery in a way’,…