‘Writing is exactly like love – you need to do it in the dark’: novelist Leila Slimani on why literature is erotic

I t is a bright, chilly spring morning in Madrid, and the Museo del Prado doesn’t open to the public for another hour. Without the crowds, the museum is amorphous and eerily silent. A pale light pools in the corners and casts long shadows around the paintings, as if the figures inside them have slip...

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