It is one thing for a book to be topical – whether by serendipity or design – but […]
Category Archive: Book reviews
Although Jorge Carrión’s wonderful non-fiction book Librerías (“Bookshops”, 2017) is currently available in several languages including English (1), […]
‘Perhaps,’ suggests the hero of Louis Armand’s The Combinations, ‘when you stare long enough a crack in the […]
Ariel Levy, a writer for The New Yorker, is 38 years old and five months pregnant when she […]
“Music is time domesticated, reproducible time, time shaped.” So thinks Franz Ritter, the insomniac Austrian musicologist whose consciousness […]
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 […]
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