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Daša Drndić's Battle Songs
Why do we still read? A heavily discursive consideration of process, trauma, and resistance through the example of a newly rereleased mid-career novel by the polyphonic Croatian master badass
Blake Butler
Mar 7
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Guibert, De Beauvoir, Bassmann, Kertesz, Bellamy, Maso, Han, Juche, McCarthy, Ballard
A look back on 10 of my most memorable reads from 2022, including one that was actually published in 2022
Blake Butler
Dec 12, 2022
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Guibert, De Beauvoir, Bassmann, Kertesz, Bellamy, Maso, Han, Juche, McCarthy, Ballard
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Annie Ernaux's A Woman's Story
Reflecting on the legendary French avant-garde memoirist's elucidation of her mother's Alzheimer's through my own, toward a means of unpacking the…
Blake Butler
Oct 3, 2022
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Vladimir Sorokin's Telluria
A highly editorial consideration of contemporary morality, ambition, and aesthetic consciousness as it relates to the recent English translation of one…
Blake Butler
Sep 19, 2022
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