In 1900, aged fourteen, Jacques Rivière founded a little journal called L’Avenir (“The Future”) which lasted three years, its print run extending to just five mimeographed copies circulated within his

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MARIANNE groaned as the sound of the shutters being pushed open woke her from a fitful sleep. She half-opened her eyes, but the sun streaming in was too strong. Turning over, she buried her face in th

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There was a night as a boy when I couldn’t sleep ahead of a football match, too wired by thoughts of the sporting heroics I might achieve—or fall short of—the next day. While tossing and turning in my