In the Tongue a Knife, in the Knife a Tongue: On Fernanda Melchor’s “Paradais”
Melchor’s new novel is overwhelming, violent, frightening, and leavened by a dark sense of humor.
Lowry Pressly is a writer of essays, fiction, and cultural criticism. He is a PhD candidate at Harvard University.
Melchor’s new novel is overwhelming, violent, frightening, and leavened by a dark sense of humor.
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A new translation of the poetry of Alejandra Pizarnik introduces Anglophone audiences to the influential Argentine’s work.
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