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“Smiling Like a Person Sunbathing”
Katie Da Cunha Lewin reviews Sylvie Weil’s Selfies (trans. Ros Schwartz).
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Whiteness, Part 2
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Kathryn Scanlan’s Aug 9— Fog.
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Whiteness, Part 1
Daniel Davis Wood reviews Jeremy Cooper’s Ash Before Oak.
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Writing, Letters
David Hebblethwaite reviews Mario Levrero’s Empty Words (trans. Annie McDermott).
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Dustin Illingworth on Ingeborg Bachmann
Writing for The Nation, Dustin Illingworth celebrates Malina, by the Austrian experimental novelist Ingeborg Bachmann, recently translated into English by Philip Boehm.
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Jon Doyle on Ruby Cowling
At Review 31, Jon Doyle reads Ruby Cowling’s short story collection This Paradise and tries to put his finger on Cowling’s aesthetic tendencies.
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The Big Smoke
David Hebblethwaite reviews Will Wiles’ Plume.
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The Side Dishes, Part 2
Jason DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s Happiness, as Such (trans. Minna Zallman Proctor).
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The Side Dishes, Part 1
Jason DeYoung reviews Natalia Ginzburg’s The Dry Heart (trans. Frances Frenaye).
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Rohan Maitzen on Virginia Woolf
At her blog, Novel Readings, Rohan Maitzen has been taking a deep dive into the works of Virginia Woolf, most recently focusing on the “interesting failure” of Woolf’s final novel, The Years.