Common LifeStphane Bouquet, translated by Lindsay Turner In three poems, one play, and three short stories, French writer Stephane Bouquets Common Life offers a lively, searching vision of contemporary life, politics, and sociality. At a moment at which the fabric of everyday social life is increasingly threatened across the globe, this book is a necessary exercise of the literary imagination: what, it asks, does it mean to inhabit the world together today?

by which she means

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but also a willingness to explore the possibility that the world

lange lijnen en open ruimtes: deze nieuwe bundel van de voormalig Dichter des Vaderlands bevat big data

And rankings and rankings and badges and repetitions

en verkent de grenzen van de verschillende gedaanten die ze zelf belichaamt: moeder

wanneer die gericht en oprecht wordt ingezet

de fiets die men om vijf uur in de morgen pakt

and even rage

radically rethinking the traditional sonnet form

it’s often hilarious

These memories retrace the seasons of a country that was quickly forgetful of its past