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On Searching for Equivalents
I’ve spent the last few months weighing novels. I have measured sentences and traced the outlines of authorial styles. At first, it…
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January–February Fragments
Radiators The one I am looking at is by my desk. It has been painted over many times, but it’s been a…
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A Novel for Our Times: Rune Christiansen's The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life
In the last three years we’ve witnessed books emerge from the pandemic, their writers grappling with a unique universal experience through language…
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Take Two: Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart
Jen Sookfong Lee and I had a crush on the same type of boy growing up. The creative, sensitive, poetry-reading boy who…
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2022 Reading Journal
“If the moralists ask us how we can justify our love of reading, we can make use of some such excuse as…
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Reviving Lucrezia: Maggie O'Farrell's The Marriage Portrait
“Words pressed themselves into her memory, like a shoe sole into soft mud, which would dry and solidify, the shoe print preserved…
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Women in Translation
“As a translator I remain outside the container, in that the novel remains the brainchild of a fellow writer. It is liberating…
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The Place of Memory: Hwang Sok-yong's At Dusk
“After a while, being ambitious means having to sift out the few values we feel like keeping and toss the rest, or…
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Translation, In All Its Forms: Jhumpa Lahiri's Translating Myself and Others
“Translating means understanding, above all, how words slip and slide into each other, how they overlap, how they end up producing a…
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Feels Like Poetry: Caleb Azumah Nelson’s Open Water
“‘You two are in something. I don’t know what it is, but you guys are in something. Some people call it a…
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