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The World the Jakarta Method Built: A Conversation with Vincent Bevins
A renowned journalist discusses his new book about US foreign policy during the Cold War era.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dog Days in Postwar Paris: On Curzio Malaparte’s “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris”
Robert Zaretsky picks apart “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris” by Curzio Malaparte.
A Stateless Woman: A Conversation with Ava Homa
Amy Reardon interviews Ava Homa about her debut novel, "Daughters of Smoke and Fire."
All the Sad Clowns: On Francis Carco’s Novel “Perversity”
Revisiting Jean Rhys’s translation of a classic French tale of sadistic desire and forbidden love.
Forget the Old Words: On Patrick Chamoiseau’s “French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony”
Piper French is captivated by “French Guiana: Memory Traces of the Penal Colony,” a photo-text by Patrick Chamoiseau and Rodolphe Hammadi.
Making It Sing: A Conversation with Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse, Translator of Yuri Rytkheu’s “When the Whales Leave”
Marina Manoukian interviews Ilona Yazhbin Chavasse, translator of Chukchi author Yuri Rytkheu.
Letter from Marseille
A quarantine bulletin from the South of France.
In Search of a Lost Relation
A new collection of translated verse by a major but neglected French poet.
The Art of Dissent
A documentary filmmaker and historian discusses his new film about Czech dissidents under the communist regime.
World Without End
Is the modernist novel obsolete in our disaster-haunted global era?
The Only One Left: A Conversation with James Lloydovich Patterson About Grigori Aleksandrov’s “Circus”
Sasha Razor interviews James Lloydovich Patterson, the son of an African American father and a Soviet mother who became a Soviet actor and author.
Israel’s Holden Caulfield: On Yair Assulin’s “The Drive”
“The Drive” is a forceful and compelling critique of the role of the military in Israeli society.
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