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Sui Generis: Helen Oyeyemi’s “Gingerbread”
Helen Oyeyemi's "Gingerbread" is a Rubik's Cube of a book, with all the frustration and delight that toy entails.
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Unromantic Truths of Weimar Germany
Marilyn Macron exhumes the dark history of Ernst Haffner’s “Blood Brothers.”
On Gravity and Play: In Conversation with Amit Chaudhuri
Amit Chaudhuri on literary activism, alternative modernisms, and the comedy of friendship.
Beyond Samarkand
A dictatorship loosens its grip and a lot of bad memories come tumbling out.
Egyptian Beats for the Global Apocalypse
Peter Holslin glosses the Arab avant-garde electro shaabi music.
More Than the Belgian Poe: The Overdue Return of Jean Ray’s “Whiskey Tales”
Jean Ray is canny in his writing of the uncanny — he is aware of the pitfalls of the genre and almost always manages to avoid hyperbolic verbosity.
Bigger Than the USSR: A Conversation with Nick Srnicek, Author of “Platform Capitalism”
Tobias Haberkorn asks Nick Srnicek about his recent book, “Platform Capitalism,” monopolies, and planned economies.
Remaining Rogue: On Andrew S. Curran’s “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely”
Robert Zaretsky ponders “Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely” by Andrew S. Curran.
Pavement Nymphs and Roadside Flowers: Prostitutes in Paris After the Revolution
The Catalan Paradox: Writers, Editors, and Translators on the Literature of a Stateless Language
A series of conversations on the state of Catalan literature. In this inaugural edition, Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi talks to Quim Monzó.
“Like Drops in the Same River”: On Yelena Moskovich’s “Virtuoso”
Nadia Beard follows the threads of “Virtuoso,” a “vivid and visceral” novel by Yelena Moskovich.
The Mexican Phoenix Rises: On “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop”
Ed Simon considers “Sor Juana: Or, the Persistence of Pop” by Ilan Stavans.
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