Hélène lives in a 25-square-meter apartment in Paris. She’s supposed to occupy it alone. Without choosing it, she lives collectively. Earplugs, headphones, white noise every night. It’s becoming an obsession. There are people talking, people shouting. There’s the TV, music, footsteps, the drill. There are unfamiliar sounds. But who are the people in the walls?

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

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Farewell, the Frenx Academix

The Académie gendered the language. A collective of artists is undoing it.

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72 days of silence

She calls her mother in Iran for Norouz. The line is dead. Bombs are falling.

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