…perhaps you can imagine Woolf walking down to the Ouse. She puts stones in her pockets. She […]
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Alienation was big in the twentieth century. Marx had a lot to do with it, but the despair […]
In Staro Selo, a deprived neighbourhood in Bulgaria, everyday lives are dominated by crime, fear, and violence. It […]
The New York Review of Books began publishing books in 1999 and has several imprints. It provides a […]
Living Things by Munir Hachemi and translated by Julia Sanches (Coach House Books, 2024; 139 pages) is many […]
The British Library Press is doing stellar work at reviving lost novels for a modern audience, and their […]
“The past was so immense,” writes Téa Obreht in the Morningside. “Overcoming it would be a true feat.” […]
With a life that spanned almost the whole of the twentieth century, Michel Leiris (1901–1990) knew and formed […]
These days I don’t often read short story collections. My preference for fiction is the long form, either […]
Róbert Gál’s Tractatus offers an epigraph by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Philosophy ought to be written only […]
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