The St. Katharinental Sister Book: Lives of the Sisters of the Dominican Convent at Diessenhoffen
I have written this book about the holy sisters who have departed from our cloister at Diessenhofen. And as small as what I have written is, it is on… More
Postmodernity’s Ironic Blender
I admit I judged the book by its cover. Not even its cover—its spine. Rilke Shake. The title was irresistible. More
A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M. Forster
When his publishing career collapsed, Lehmann turned to America by necessity. He began an itinerant life lecturing on campuses where he could hold forth on his long-lived and impressive… More
Testimony of Marian Botsford Fraser, PEN International
On December 6, 2011, PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee Chair Marian Botsford Fraser was invited to testify before Congress at a hearing entitled “One Year After the Nobel… More
Contained Violence
Perhaps Schweblin’s preoccupation with the thin line separating reality and fantasy, and with control, is the product of a society coming to grips with the legacy of a dictatorship… More
The Warmth of Other Suns
There was no explaining to little James and Velma the stuffed bags and chaos and all that was at stake or why they had to put on their shoes… More
Essays from the Nick of Time
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma in embryo. But more:… More
Hopeful Tussles: Martha Cooley on Poetry in Translation
Two different poetic languages representing two different ways of experiencing the world: these might at first seem essentially incompatible, perhaps even warring—but they’re not. They’re really two lovers (seeking… More
Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire
A sleepy town surrounded by pine forests and tumbledown farms, seventy miles north of Houston, Huntsville was selected in 1848 to build the state’s first residential institution, a penitentiary.… More
Bringing German Theater to the World
In choosing plays to translate, I have sought out scripts that are substantially different—in form, or content, or both—from the type of work routinely staged by English-language theaters, without… More
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