Claire Foster is a writer, bookseller, and literary translator from French. Her writing and translations have appeared in Public Books, The Kenyon Review, and the Cleveland Review of Books, and her translation of Valérie Manteau’s novel The Furrow is forthcoming from Invisible Publishing in 2026. Born and raised in Ohio, she lives and works in Toronto.
Claire Foster
Articles
Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place
Claire Foster reviews Claire-Louise Bennett’s “Big Kiss, Bye-Bye.”
Give Them Space
Claire Foster reviews Jacqueline Feldman’s book about Paris’s artistic squat scene, “Precarious Lease.”
A Precarious, Provisional Order
Claire Foster reviews Daniel Saldaña París’s “Planes Flying over a Monster,” newly translated by Christina MacSweeney and Philip K. Zimmerman.
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