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Review: Marina Warner on Margaret Atwood
It is the deep function of a fairy tale, even the most merciless stories of cruelty and revenge, to hold out a belief in change
Notebook: Opinion
by Ann Kjellberg, editor
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: (2) Donna Seaman, “River of Books”
My parents, Bronx high-school sweethearts, were ardent readers. My father, who dropped out at age fifteen to work, schooled himself in libraries and on…
Diary: (1) Donna Seaman, “River of Books”
Like many book-obsessed kids, I was often told not to read
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Review: Anthony Domestico, Poetry on TV
How to convince people who think they don’t like poetry that there might be something in it for them?
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Notebook: (2) Translation
What translation we have depends on small publishers operating on the near side of ruin most of the time
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Ann Kjellberg
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Notebook: (1) Translation
by Ann Kjellberg, editor. That a prize known for the size of its haul should be translated literature’s one moment in the American sun seems either…
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Joy Williams on Andrey Platonov
He is never playful or ironic. He is sincere to the point of pathology, a holy pathology
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Diary: Deborah Levy on J. G. Ballard
Ballard always insisted he was more interested in inner space than outer space.
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Review: Barry Yourgrau on Jean-Patrick Manchette
Manchette used the crime thriller to skewer capitalist culture’s sedating distractions
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