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Eight Books About the Ups and Downs of Friendship

Eight Books About the Ups and Downs of Friendship

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By Lillian Li | February 17, 2026

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An Archive of Associations: When My Father Bought Foucault’s Old Car

Anna Nygren on Writing Between Intertextuality, Obsession and Categorization

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Katie da Cunha Lewin on the Joys of Quiet, Communal Writing

Katie da Cunha Lewin on the Joys of Quiet, Communal Writing

Or: A Room of (Every)one’s Own

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