July 1, 2024
Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, eludes easy categorization. In Bigger: A Literary Life, Trudier Harris examines his continued relevance in debates over Black men and the violence… READ MORE
June 27, 2024
Alan Mikhail— Between the street and the building was a large black wrought-iron fence. On the inside of this one of Egypt’s millions of border markers, two paths led into… READ MORE
May 29, 2024
Lost Writings: Two Novels by Mina Loy includes two never-before-published manuscripts by the groundbreaking writer, artist, and feminist. In this Q&A, we talk with the book’s editor Karla Kelsey about… READ MORE
May 17, 2024
Patrick Modiano— Leaving Chevreuse, there’s a bend in the road, then a narrow tree-lined highway. After a few miles, the entrance to a village, and soon you were running alongside… READ MORE
May 15, 2024
Chronicles of a Village by Nguyễn Thanh Hiện, the author’s first work to be translated into English, is an incantatory poetic novel that interweaves the legends, tragedies, and histories of… READ MORE
May 2, 2024
Richard Sieburth— Autobiography and autofiction are all the rage in France, viz. Annie Ernaux’s recent Nobel Prize. Anticipating this trend, ex-surrealist Michel Leiris devoted much of his literary career to… READ MORE
April 9, 2024
In Love in the New Millennium, celebrated experimental writer Can Xue tells the story of a group of women who inhabit a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in… READ MORE
March 4, 2024
Museum Visits presents the daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard. In this Q&A, we with talk with translator Daniel Levin Becker about the process of translation, the… READ MORE
November 9, 2023
Richard Pevear— Ludmila Ulitskaya is one of the major Russian writers of our time. She began writing rather late: her short fiction began to be published in 1990; her first… READ MORE
October 16, 2023
Seayoung Yim— “If you just lost A LOT of weight and got plastic surgery, you could become Miss Korea!” Miss Korea, oh, Miss Korea—the promise of a thin beauty ideal… READ MORE
A Conversation with Trudier Harris on Bigger: A Literary Life