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A Phoenix from the Ashes: Myth and Memorial in Sara Stridsberg’s Valerie

  • Author Ryan Daar
  • PublishedNovember 10, 2019November 11, 2019

Valerie, or The Faculty of Dreams: A Novel / Sara Stridsberg, trans. by Deborah Bragan-Turner / FSG, 08/2019 – $27 (Hardcover) Valerie Solanas’s Wikipedia page…

Babel Unbuilt: Alan Shapiro’s Against Translation

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedJune 29, 2019June 29, 2019

“Beginning with the fall of towers and ending with the emergence of a new voice, the mastery of Against Translation is clear…”

A Diorama of Memories: Claire Millikin’s Ransom Street

  • Author Sam Wilcox
  • PublishedJune 22, 2019January 26, 2020

“Spectres linger in the poems of Ransom Street…”

Reading Samantha Shannon’s The Priory of the Orange Tree

  • Author Spencer Grayson
  • PublishedMarch 25, 2019March 25, 2019

Midterms season is probably not the best time to read an 848-page novel pertaining in no way to your exams, but the mind has curious…

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