The Sleep of the Righteous – Wolfgang Hilbig
It is a real gift to English language readers that finally, albeit posthumously, we have the opportunity to discover and admire a portion of this wonderful writer’s oeuvre.
Who could imagine a US intelligence agent caring about Beckett?
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 3
Day 3 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 2
Day 2 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the limits of the human are discussed.
Book Club: The Complete Stories of Clarice Lispector – DAY 1
Day 1 of an in-depth dialogic inquiry into Clarice Lispector’s short fiction, in which her embrace of the body, linguistic innovations, and interrogations of gender, sexuality, and the boundaries of the human are discussed.
The Weather Changed, Summer Came and So On – Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
The prose style is what a Scandinavian writer might assume an American reader considers quintessentially Scandinavian: clean, simple, efficient, sort of minimalist, like something from Ikea.
By taking issue with the conventions in the discourse around art, beyond aesthetics, the selected contributors deeply interrogate objects, labor conditions, and the transparency within ethics.
Pool Party Trap Loop – Ben Segal
Segal’s work stands alone in its strange, winding, sudden candor.
The Story of My Teeth – Valeria Luiselli
The wider current to which this book belongs probably cannot sustain many more publications of this type without incurring some sort of backlash.
Wrack Lariat – Heller Levinson
In these Hinges, “How much of” acts as the pivot for each poem, there is usually one word as the particle, and a line or two as the postulate, which causes the whole piece to surge with contemplative meaning.