Laurent, a minor character in Nicolas Mathieu’s Of Fangs and Talons, was once “a show-off and a hopeless romantic, who loved B-roads and drunken weekends with friends.” That was in 1988, and in the next decade he “began designing massive supermarkets,” making the transition from liberal to neoliberal. “In those countries still recovering from a […]

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