Exploding Clichés: On Éric Chevillard’s Versatile Prose
Michelle Kuo, Jeremy M. Davies, and Daniel Levin Becker discuss Éric Chevillard’s pandemic writing and the challenges of rendering his style into English.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Battlefield of Memory: On Rana Mitter’s “China’s Good War”
Through Rana Mitter’s book “China’s Good War,” Yangyang Cheng reflects on government control of the memory, legacy, and meaning of World War II in China.
The Dream of the Swimming Pool
James Delbourgo considers the ways we've looked at swimming pools over the years.
Their Corruption, and Ours
Two new books on global corruption finger different culprits.
The Carpenter-President: On Ben Bland’s “Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia”
A mini-biography of Indonesia’s president is also a snapshot of a country in transition.
The Most Influential Magazine in Muslim History?
Nile Green reviews "Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935" by Leor Halevi.
The Original Sin: On Barnes Carr’s “The Lenin Plot” and Jonathan Schneer’s “The Lockhart Plot”
Douglas Smith investigates two recent books on foreign intervention in the Russian Civil War.
We Need to Talk About England
Ravi Ghosh reviews Alex Niven’s “New Model Island” and reflects on the current state of the UK’s political sphere.
Fulfilling the Mission: A Conversation with Olga Tokarczuk’s Translators
Jennifer Croft speaks to her fellow translators of Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, who accepted the award one year ago today.
The Humiliation of No Longer Being Desired: Nathalie Léger’s Investigations of Abandonment
Nathan Scott McNamara considers Nathalie Léger's "The White Dress," out now from Dorothy in a translation by Natasha Lehrer.
The Voice of Feminism: On “F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry”
Francesca Ebel listens to the varied voices of “F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry.”
6 Hörlgasse
Sharing spectral moments in Vienna and Los Angeles with Freud, Thomas Mann, and Marjorie Perloff.
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