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Today in Utrecht! Linda Kinstler on her book, «Come to this Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends» (it is a marvel), in conversation with Lorena De Vita https://t.co/4t3XML8idR

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Now un-paywalled: @Wiegertje Postma on pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, @WhitStillman's Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals. https://t.co/7JWRrivmqU https://t.co/X4BlnjrsmN

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«A woman who hates me said that the next time I say my name, I’m going to die.» Samanta Schweblin’s stories have their own bewildering logic. Read «An Unlucky Man» now, which appears in Seven Empty Houses, forthcoming from @OneworldNews. https://t.co/M2QSnOeJdO

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Now un-paywalled: @Wiegertje Postma on pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, @WhitStillman's Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals. https://t.co/7JWRrivmqU https://t.co/X4BlnjrsmN

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«The people I know who quit smoking», Christy Wampole notes in her essay on Zeno’s Conscience (1923), «have begun smoking again». In this fragile time, we can all identify with the chain-smoking protagonist of Italo Svevo’s modernist classic. https://t.co/m4qvfbPlOx

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German was Marina Jarre's mother tongue, but Italian was «the Esperanto in which I began to write.» Is an Esperanto fit for intimate memoirs like Distant Fathers (2021) & Return to Latvia (2023)? Read @eloisa_morra on memory, style & hostile language. https://t.co/2WRRVHfFbR https://t.co/3Wr9tBsI3m

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Now un-paywalled: @pleij reads Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man. «His fairylike tale of a lover whose skin suddenly turns brown reminded me of another transformed lover, from a satire published exactly 100 years earlier. The God of numbers is with us.» https://t.co/sfwVHXjbQy https://t.co/vlx5YPddIv

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Now un-paywalled: @Wiegertje Postma on pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, @WhitStillman's Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals. https://t.co/7JWRrivmqU https://t.co/X4BlnjrsmN

The European Review of Books

«A woman who hates me said that the next time I say my name, I’m going to die.» Samanta Schweblin’s stories have their own bewildering logic. Read «An Unlucky Man» now, which appears in Seven Empty Houses, forthcoming from @OneworldNews. https://t.co/M2QSnOeJdO

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In English, the prose of Fernanda Melchor («Hurricane Season», «Paradais») – with its aggressive density of slang and sexual imagery – is a rough and jarring ride. But in her original Spanish, the lived-in-ness of the language makes its violence secondary. https://t.co/dKoHlDUwhR https://t.co/XhQWUmkYCd