World Books
Alannah Hopkin demonstrates a near impeccable sense of craft, including a talent for coming up with surprises.
Read MoreMartín Espada’s lyricism sings deeply in the key of loss, turning the anguish of social and personal histories into hope.
Read MoreKlaus Merz’s cunning, compressed prose invites us to listen for the sounds of the inexpressible, the other side of life.
Read MoreThe imperative to engage with landscape, and thus leave or at least minimize the self, has become of great importance to Peter Handke.
Read MoreThis is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.
Read MoreDespite one’s aspirations to another kind of reality, for Pierre Reverdy one is forced to return to one’s fetters.
Read MoreIt would be a mistake to call the absorbing Eve out of her Ruins a mystery novel.
Read MoreFouad Laroui’s striking collection of stories describes a world “where everything is foreign.”
Read MoreMaybe finally we’re reaching the Natsume Sōseki moment in the English-speaking world.
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