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Temptation and Trickery: Dirty Double-Dealing in “Orchid & the Wasp”
Yoona Lee reviews Caoilinn Hughes's debut novel, "Orchid & the Wasp."
Around the World
"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
The Artist Malevich Takes a Walk in Vitebsk
Shifra Sharlin on the radical potential of artist Kazimir Malevich’s provincial flânerie.
When a Love Poet Writes an Epic: Catullus’s “Poem 64”
Daisy Dunn revisits Catullus’s “Poem 64.”
Ecstatic Communion: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Seasons Quartet Conclusion, “Summer”
With “Summer,” the conclusion to his Seasons quartet, Norwegian maestro Karl Ove Knausgaard provides a master class in creating reader-writer intimacy.
“No Films Are Ever Made”: A Correspondence with Paul Bowles
Tom Christie presents his four-year correspondence with Paul Bowles.
A Castle Built on Sand? Ukrainian Literature and Crimea
Stephen Komarnyckyj explores the rich and fragile tradition of Ukrainian literature from Crimea.
The Words That Don’t Kill: Interview with Tetiana Savchynska
Yuliya Komska interviews Tetiana Savchynska, the Ukrainian translator of Kazuo Ishiguro and John Le Carré, about the language in war and literature.
Russian Cosmism Versus Interstellar Bosses: Reclaiming Full-Throttle Luxury Space Communism
Aaron Winslow reviews the collection "Russian Cosmism," edited by Boris Groys.
Revolt and Revulsion in Margarita García Robayo’s “Fish Soup”
Margarita García Robayo’s prose is concise and startling, her voice versatile and capable of packing a serious punch.
Beyond Physical Coexistence: Aminatta Forna’s “Happiness”
Aminatta Forna's "Happiness" shows us why we must embrace coexistence and how this works in practice.
Yuri Tynianov’s “Film — Word — Music” (1924)
Vera Koshkina and Ainsley Morse present “Film — Word — Music,” a 1924 essay on film by the great Formalist theorist Yuri Tynianov.
“The Terror of History”: On Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade
Philip Ó Ceallaigh unravels the complicated relationship, in life and fiction, between Saul Bellow and Mircea Eliade.
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