“Do You Live in Paris?”
February 17, 2020
Patrick Modiano— She introduced me to her brother a few weeks after we’d met, a brother she had never mentioned before. Once or twice I’d tried to find out more… READ MORE
Category: Margellos World Republic of Letters Series
Remember What You Did?
January 22, 2020
António Lobo Antunes— My mother was their first cousin, meaning the first cousin of the father, not of the black son who was never his son though he treated him… READ MORE
Do You Know China?
December 27, 2019
Patrick Modiano— At what point in my life did I meet Henri Marignan? Oh, I couldn’t have been twenty at the time. I think of him often. Sometimes he seems… READ MORE
Dead at Last
December 26, 2019
Máirtín Ó Cadhain— It was a ratty voice on the other end of the telephone, her sister calling from his house. ‘Aren’t you ashamed of yourself gallivanting around, and your… READ MORE
Book of Collateral Damage
June 4, 2019
Sinan Antoon— A drop of sweat fell on the edge of the piece of paper and I stopped reading. His handwriting was neat and confident. The ink was black, maybe… READ MORE
From Automatic Writing to Artificial Intelligence: On Translating Can Xue’s Fiction
April 9, 2019
Annelise Finegan Wasmoen— Across interviews and essays, the experimental writer Can Xue characterizes her fiction in two ways that speak to what are also questions about translation: as, at once,… READ MORE
Desirable Body
November 20, 2018
Hubert Haddad; Translated by Alyson Waters— One autumn morning, Cédric awoke with a start and sat up in bed as daylight filtered through the blinds. He must have been dreaming… READ MORE
The Skin of Chaos —The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed (part 3)
November 21, 2017
This is part three of a three-part series. Read part one and two. World-renowned poet Adonis and award-winning artist Adel Abdessemed present a record of their passionate conversations in Paris in… READ MORE
The Skin of Chaos —The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed (part 2)
November 14, 2017
This is part two of a three-part series. Read part one and three. World-renowned poet Adonis and award-winning artist Adel Abdessemed present a record of their passionate conversations in Paris in… READ MORE
The Skin of Chaos —The Letters of Adonis and Adel Abdessemed (part 1)
November 7, 2017
This is part one of a three-part series. Read part two and three. World-renowned poet Adonis and award-winning artist Adel Abdessemed present a record of their passionate conversations in Paris in this… READ MORE
Memories of Chevreuse