Translated into English by Isabel Fargo Cole, Hilbig’s final novel tells of alienation and unrest in Cold War Germany
In this short piece, Brazilian novelist and short-story writer, Carol Bensimon, posits the life of a pool man after the virus has wrecked the tourism industry and the rich have ...
Tradition, betrayal and pain dance together in this poem.
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On the sensitivities and cruel memories of youth.
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What can you buy on a street? A song of surprise.
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A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
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An ironic and brutal look at corporate life.
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On fortune, reading, and love of the other.
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An original take on Greek tragedy in this extract from a longer work.
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A. M. Bakalar, guest editor of our Poland issue, opens the door for the uninitiated to what’s going on right now in Polish literature. From a Stanisław Lem classic ...
Peter Lewis on the pleasures and pitfalls of translating German to English, from imponderable subclauses and outlandish compound nouns to the translator’s bête noire, the innuendo.
Translator and blogger Katy Derbyshire gets us up to speed on the German literary scene with 11 contemporary books in translation you should be reading.
Equal parts thrilling romp and grim, unflinching inspection of the contemporary immigrant experience, Albert Enrique’s short story collection Hypothermia is literature at its bravest.
Within Sabine Gruber’s Roman Elegy Lochlan Bloom enjoys not only the sensations of life in the Italian capital but also the wonderful depiction of tensions that have existed between Germany ...
In Italy we are surrounded by translations. Books, magazines, movies – everything is translated or subbed, and we love our share of foreign art. I can only speak from my ...
