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October 11, 2024No one draws house parties like Charles Burns. They seem to channel not the event itself but rather its memory, darkened by time and intoxication, though somehow utterly legible in...
August 2, 2024The title of José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night comes from a letter Henry James Sr. wrote to his sons Henry and William: Every man who has reached even...
June 24, 2024Anne Carson once wrote that Paul Celan is ‘a poet who uses language as if he were always translating.’ His elliptical, compressed poetry has been a longstanding...
March 26, 2024The French novelist Mathias Énard sets his obsessive characters within the high contrast of a cultural or political confusion. The much-lauded Zone (2008)—written as a...
