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It is proof of the translators’ skill that Krasznahorkai’s sentences work as well as they do.
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For all his literary fecundity, Ezra Loomis Pound was also more than a little bonkers.
Read MoreFollow almost any of these police brutality cases to their realpolitik conclusion and you will eventually work your way back to a monstrous truth.
Read MoreJack Taylor is a Beckettian character on the skids; he can’t go on, and yet he goes on.
Read MoreDorothy B. Hughes is one of the finest female practitioners of noir.
Read MoreThis superb volume is much more than a group of essays; it is a tale with a trajectory fashioned by a writer who is determined to be achingly honest.
Read MoreAnthony DeCurtis wants to do justice to his subjects’ extensive catalogue, but the book begins to feel less like exegesis and more like Lou Reed 101.
Read MoreDe Hamel’s history is a detective story, a love story, and a revelation of the nourishment to be found in celebrated libraries and collections.
Read More“Everything about the Holocaust already seems so thoroughly unreal, as if it no longer belongs to the experience of our generation, but to mythology…”
Read MoreWilliam Gass’s primal loyalty was to the words composing his texts.
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