“Music is time domesticated, reproducible time, time shaped.” So thinks Franz Ritter, the insomniac Austrian musicologist whose consciousness […]
Category Archive: Book reviews
A work I am untranslating – that is to say a work I hesitate to say I’m translating, […]
It’s 1999 and the world is coming to an end. People are throwing themselves off buildings in New […]
Michel Leiris had been dreaming at least since 1923, if we believe the first date noted in his […]
Samuel Beckett called words an “unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness”. In Eley Williams’ debut collection, jittery with […]
Maria’s words are elegant, italic. My own are clumsy, straight. ******** Bell persists in duty: May I change […]
Not yet fourteen years old, Luke Zamilski is waiting his turn to climb into a garden swimming pool […]
Short stories have an awkward place in the history of literature. For some writers, short stories are their […]
Untranslated Untrans-salted This salted butter-coloured book Canary yellow as an accentuation of aged paper The most beautiful dress […]
Hi Thom, Up until now, I’ve more or less agreed with Greif without feeling he was writing from […]
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