Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water

Nick Burns is a Fulbright scholar at Queen Mary University of London, where he studies intellectual history. He has written for The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and The Hedgehog Review on subjects ranging from the ancient Greeks to modern Brazil.

Nick Burns

The Inhospitable Wilderness of António Lobo Antunes’s “Until Stones Become Lighter Than Water”

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Nick Burns is a Fulbright scholar at Queen Mary University of London, where he studies intellectual history. He has written for The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and The Hedgehog Review on subjects ranging from the ancient Greeks to modern Brazil.