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Port of Last Call
Christine Gross-Loh reviews Jeffrey Wasserstrom's new book, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink."
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
A Sense of Exclusion: An Excerpt from Carla Lonzi’s “Autoritratto (Self-Portrait)”
Allison Grimaldi Donahue presents an excerpt from her translation of Italian art critic and feminist activist Carla Lonzi’s “Autoritratto.”
Love and Solitude in Exile: Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea”
Sam Buckland finds Isabel Allende’s “A Long Petal of the Sea” “intimate but never sentimental, traumatic but never aggressively so.”
Creating a Bridge: A Conversation with Susan Harris, Editorial Director of “Words Without Borders”
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi discusses the importance of translation with Susan Harris, editorial director of "Words Without Borders."
In the Shape of People: On Catherine Chidgey’s “The Wish Child”
Maggie Trapp considers "The Wish Child" by Catherine Chidgey, which is out now in paperback from Counterpoint.
Always Narrating: The Making and Unmaking of Umberto Eco
Costica Bradatan looks back at, and behind, the life and thought of Umberto Eco, who waged a long war against “dietrologia” (“behindology”).
Translating Transnational Anxiety: Ivana Dobrakovová’s “Bellevue”
Daniel. W Pratt considers adolescence, madness, and the breakdown of language in Ivana Dobrakovová’s “Bellevue,” translated by Julia and Peter Sherwood.
Talking Forcefully to Ghosts
A playful new Cuban novel about cannibalism, ghosts, and an unrepentant Don Juan.
The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus
Robert Zaretsky considers Albert Camus’s posthumous friendship with Simone Weil.
“Books Find Their Way to Readers”: The Barcelona Literary Agency Casanovas & Lynch
Nathan Scott McNamara talks to María Lynch and Sandra Pareja of Casanovas & Lynch, a Barcelona-based literary agency.
Giving “Doctor Zhivago” Another Chance
Christine Jacobson celebrates the appearance of Nicolas Pasternak Slater’s faithful yet natural translation of his uncle Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago.”
An Epic Struggle for Mastery of a Subcontinent
Priya Satia reviews William Dalrymple's "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire."
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