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“In the electric light the traveler is writing”: An interview with the...

A Marguerite Duras novel in its first English translation: just another publication, or an event? This summer, Open Letter Books publishes L’Amour, which stands at the heart of Duras’ celebrated India...

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The Value of Naïveté: Shishkin’s Maidenhair in Russian and English

Innocence and Experience In a fancy San Francisco hotel, Mikhail Shishkin reads from his novel Венерин волос (Venerin volos), composed of the stories of Russian-speaking Gesuchstellers, refugees...

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Plot in the Body: Yasmina Reza’s Happy are the Happy

For me, plot has always been an especially puzzling aspect of fiction writing. I can tell a story, but making that story entirely believable through plot? That’s the rub. As a literary scholar with a...

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Apollo in the Grass: Selected Poems, by Aleksandr Kushner

A seminal experience of my writing life happened during my undergraduate years, when I read Mikhail Bakhtin’s 1941 essay “Epic and Novel: Towards a Methodology for the Study of the Novel.” Its...

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The Monstrous Complicity of Leila Slimani’s The Perfect Nanny

The Perfect Nanny opens with the sentence “The baby is dead,” and the first chapter concludes, “Mila soon will be, too.” Sandwiched between these stark phrases is the gruesome description of a bathroom...

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The Happiness Bureau, by Andreas Izquierdo

Kafka casts such a long shadow that to find happiness in German bureaucracy feels almost revolutionary. Yet this is precisely what we discover in Andreas Izquierdo’s recent novel, The Happiness Bureau...

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I Owe Andre Dubus a Piece of Me

Editor’s Note: Since 2009, the Italian author Nicola Manuppelli has translated seven collections of short stories and novellas by Andre Dubus. With David R. Godine, Publisher’s June release of We Don’t...

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Fracture, by Andrés Neuman

Andrés Neuman has authored almost twenty books since his first collection of poetry appeared in 1999, and garnered international recognition along the way, including selection in 2010 by Granta as one...

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At Night All Blood is Black, by David Diop

War, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus once said, is the father of all and the king of all. In Heraclitus’ telling, it is we poor mortals who are war’s unhappy children, and its subjects. But...

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Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors

Dorthe Nors’s new collection of stories, previously published in her native Denmark and the UK, appears in the United States in the midst of the pandemic winter. To some, the stories may seem perfect...

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