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The lucky sperm and egg club
In a review in The New Yorker in 2019 of two books on the wrongs and rights of meritocracy (especially the wrongs, needless to say), Louis Menand…
 • Arnon Grunberg
Swimming and pretending
In an article in the London Review of Books about exclusion, identity and the possibility of violence, Adam Phillips wrote: ‘If Kafka has a subject, it…
 • Arnon Grunberg
I am calling you
In the spring of 2019 I went to Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma, on a quest for God in the USA, all the while thinking of Nick Cave’s song…
 • Arnon Grunberg
A national need for outrage
A few days before the 1996 Presidential Elections, presidential candidate Bob Dole asked voters: ‘Where is the outrage?’ On the same day, he urged…
 • Arnon Grunberg
Mysophobia
‘If Blake Bailey, Philip Roth’s biographer, is credibly accused of rape and attempted rape, let him be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 • Arnon Grunberg
The comfort of a true stranger
On March 12, The Guardian published a series of photographs by Jeremy Lempin, featuring horse Peyo, known as ‘Doctor Peyo,’ who provides comfort to sick…
 • Arnon Grunberg
Friend and Foe
Why the need to have enemies is insatiable
 • Arnon Grunberg
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The Flaneur is a producer of side notes on the human comedy in all its appearances. Living between cities, between passports and on borrowed time.

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