Virginia Woolf
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Skinned aliveThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Imagine your therapist assigned you to write your autobiography, after which you decided you were cured, so your therapist published it as revenge. Zeno’s Conscience turns 99.
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A sangre fríaThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Fernanda Melchor’s prose hits you square in the face, but its lyricism works differently in Spanish. On Veracruzano modernism, lyrical slang, and worlds so new that style falls apart.
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To see a cityThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something deeply European.
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Eat the dustThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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Søren Kierkegaard compared reading reviews of his books to « the long martyrdom of being trampled to death by geese. » What martyrdoms does today’s bookishness portend?
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Woman is spaceThis article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.
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« Space », or prostranstvo, is a key word for understanding the literary and philosophical history of Russia. Oksana Vasyakina’s Rana (Wound), a Siberian road novel, remakes the Russian landscape and the Russian novel for women’s worlds. It renders prostranstvo unruly, polysemous, queer.
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A messy optical process
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On orthodoxies & heresies of typography. To serif, or sans-serif?