On my radar: China Miéville’s cultural highlights

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Click Here to Read: On my radar: China Miéville’s cultural highlights: The writer on a moving comic about life in 80s Turkey, disquieting composer Carolyn O’Brien and poet Caitlin Doherty’s tribute to the first dog in space by China Miéville on the Guardian Website on February 14, 2016.

China Miéville: ‘Any novel by Michael Cisco is cause for delight.’ Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests

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Click Here to Read: Polish move to strip Holocaust expert of award sparks protests: Princeton University professor Jan Tomasz Gross faces losing Order of Merit over comments Polish villagers were complicit in massacre of Jews Alex Duval Smith on the The Guardian on February 13, 2016.

Defeated Jewish families fleeing the Warsaw ghetto in 1943. Professor Jan Grosssaid Poles killed more ‘Jews than Germans during the war’. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection

Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heyman

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Click Here to Read: Scary Old Sex by Arlene Heyman, Reviews of her book of short Stories.

Click Here to Read: The real fifty shades of ‘grey’ – tales from the psychiatrist’s couch by Harriet Alexander on the Telegraph websit eon February 5, 2016.

Click Here to Read: The perils of writing about sex: ‘Your partner will think it’s about them. Or – even worse – someone else’ Should you use exotic euphemisms or anatomical detail? Should it be comical, tender or shocking? And what if your mum reads it? Three generations of writers reveal the pitfalls – and pleasures – of writing about erotic encounters by Joe Dunthorne, Stephanie Merritt and Arlene Heyman on the Guardian website on  February 11, 2016.

Living With Face Blindness

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Click Here to Read: Living With Face Blindness: Prosopagnosia is a condition that can make it impossible to recognize the faces of others, from friends to movie characters to parents. To varying degrees, it affects about two percent of people by Samjana Chowhan in The Atlntic Monthly on September 24, 2013.

Deux hommes en pied by Edgar Degas (Renaud Camus/flickr)