Yoko Tawada
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The Disaster Artists October 18, 2024
There is a certain delicacy to the novels of Yoko Tawada. They possess a lightness that is unusual, especially given her themes. Against the backdrop of dying cultures and apocalypse, her characters float across the surface of her pages, not so much ...
Private Riddles June 24, 2024
Anne 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 influence on Yoko Tawada, another writer who seems to exist between languages. Born in To...
