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theparisreview: “My favorite entries, though, are those in which [Barthes] attains a moment of clarity, and the banality of mourning—its day-to-dayness—transmits a farsighted wisdom: ‘I am either lacerated or ill at ease and occasionally subject to gusts of life.’” —Managing editor Nicole Rudick on Roland Barthes’s Mourning DiaryRead more of what we’re loving this week here.

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