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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…

Mar 7 •

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Published on LIVEBLOG 2023 • May 27

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

Dec 12, 2022 •

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…

Oct 3, 2022 •

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…

Sep 19, 2022 •

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