Category: literature
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Since there’s no real literary news today I wanted to share a bit from a book proposal I’m putting together for my translation of Mirosław Nahacz’s 2003 novel Eight Four.… more ›
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At some point near the beginning of 2025 I decided that I’d try to get through as many epics as I could, though I didn’t spend much time defining what… more ›
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In 2022 I read 17 books. As usual I didn’t read much fiction at all. Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, though, turned out to be one of my favorite novels of… more ›
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My reading this past year was all over the place. I began 2020 participating in an in-person reading group called something along the lines of Books Your Parents Probably Read… more ›
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Originally, this drink, that I designed after translating Bruno Schulz’s “Undula” and in honor of its release, which took place at midnight in Schulz’s hometown in western Ukraine, was called… more ›
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The future is haunted. It’s something that I’ve known for a few years now. I first recognized this state of affairs while reading the English translation of Ivo Andrić’s The… more ›
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In his Meditations, Descartes cites watching people bundled in winter dress at a distance as an example of the gap between perception and judgment: If I look out of the… more ›
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We have been ardent supporters of the arts since our undergraduate days. Last year around this time, a colleague at TheaterJones wrote about seeing over 100 shows, mostly theater, I… more ›