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Nina Aron

  • Senior Writer and Editor, Apple
  • Writer, Dollface
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Swallowing Words: Food and Desire in Karolina Ramqvist’s Bread and Milk

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By Nina Aron, Sabitha Söderholm
| Words Without Borders Verified
“It seems to me,” wrote M. F. K. Fisher in the foreword to her 1943 classic The Gastronomical Me, “that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.” The line aptly summarizes the terrain of Bread and Milk, Karolina Ramqvist’s fifth book and the third to appear in English.
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What Kingdom - Fine Gråbøl

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By Nina Aron
| Full Stop Verified
[Archipelago; 2024] Tr. from the Danish by Martin Aitken In contemporary literature, the psychiatric institution is saddled with a heavy burden. Variously depicted as a microcosm of a stultifying world, a setting for individual transformation, a site of battle against oppressive systems, and a place of revelation about the limits of human abjection, the institution encompasses stark contradictions: isolation and camaraderie, compliance and subversion, sadism and care.
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Failing to read

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By Nina Aron
| Dollface
In the month since my father died, I’ve tried reading many things. It’s hard to find the right thing, to feel any sense that I am in the right place mentally, just as it’s hard to get comfortable physically. It’s as though I’m navigating a new skin. My mind is busy, my thinking stuttered, punctuated by memories of him, his final days, final utterances. Or else I’m suspended in a state of strange numbness. Either way, I don’t have the mental capacity for a narrative.
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