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Tortoise Futures
Lydia Pyne reviews "On the Backs of Tortoises: Darwin, the Galápagos, and the Fate of Evolutionary Eden" by Elizabeth Hennessy.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Merchants of Hate: The Dreyfus Affair Revisited
The Dreyfus Affair split France into two warring camps, and still inspires storytelling.
Acts of Memory, Acts of Power: On Shenaz Patel’s “Silence of the Chagos”
Ariel Saramandi reviews "Silence of the Chagos" by Shenaz Patel.
Class-Motivated Self-Hatred: On Marie NDiaye’s “The Cheffe”
Kamil Ahsan pays compliments to “The Cheffe,” the recently translated novel by Marie NDiaye.
Ultra Soft Power
Paul J. D’Ambrosio reviews Roel Sterckx’s “Ways of Heaven: An Introduction to Chinese Thought.”
Alexandrian Melodies
Gretchen McCullough muses on the life and literature of Alexandria.
Fractured and Fluid Identity: On Igiaba Scego’s “Beyond Babylon”
Kelsey McFaul reviews "Beyond Babylon," a novel by Igiaba Scego, translated from the Italian by Aaron Robertson.
Je Suis Charlie
Seth Greenland reviews a compelling new memoir about surviving a brutal terrorist attack.
Unmaking World Literature
Chris Findeisen reviews Sarah Brouillette’s “UNESCO and the Fate of the Literary.”
Katherine Mansfield: The Polish Connection
Gerri Kimber and Magda Heydel reconstruct Katherine Mansfield’s Polish connection.
The Way They Move
Jean Comandon's 1909 "Spirochaeta Pallida (Agent de la Syphilis)" brought together the history of science and technology, sex and entertainment.
Dostoyevsky Misprisioned: “The House of the Dead” and American Prison Literature
Ilya Vinitsky follows a spurious Dostoyevsky quote into the American house of the dead.
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