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Andy Beckett: In Chile, 25 January 2001

Pinochet and Me: A Chilean Anti-Memoir 
by Marc Cooper.
Verso, 143 pp., £15, December 2000, 1 85984 785 4
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... experiences and escapes from Chile can appear a bit melodramatic, and secure diminishing returns. Marc Cooper spent ‘27 months’ there during and immediately after the Allende Government, he tells us on the first page of his memoir. For less than a year and a half, in 1972 and 1973, he was one of the President’s translators. He was also, he ...

Along the Voie Sacrée

Inigo Thomas, 8 November 2018

... captured 132 and was awarded every French and American honour imaginable. He was played by Gary Cooper in Sergeant York; the movie, made in 1941, won Cooper an Oscar. Further to the west, at the now-restored trenches above Massiges, bodies continue to be found. The remains of Albert Dadure were discovered in 2013; a plate ...

Anthropomorphic Carrot

Polly Dickson: Tales from Hoffmann, 23 January 2025

‘The Golden Pot’ and Other Tales of the Uncanny 
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Peter Wortsman.
Archipelago, 425 pp., £14.99, October 2023, 978 1 953861 70 2
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The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E.T.A. Hoffmann 
by E.T.A. Hoffmann, translated by Jack Zipes.
Yale, 277 pp., £30, April 2023, 978 0 300 26319 0
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... fiction that deals with his ill-fated love for a teenage music student of his, Julia Marc. His repetition shapes events both within and between his texts – it raises the stakes of the uncanny in ‘The Sandman’, where the traumatic events of Nathanael’s childhood recur across his life, with the recurrence of the figure of the male ...

Diary

Pooja Bhatia: Media Theranos, 4 November 2021

... fraud. But, according to Smith, Ozy’s board seemed unconcerned. Its billionaire chairman, Marc Lasry, praised Watson’s compassion for Rao, who wasn’t fired, and promised support. Jobs’s company, Emerson Collective, showed less confidence, noting that it hadn’t invested in the latest funding round or sat on Ozy’s board since 2019.I had left ...

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