Commentary

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on Nevermore by Cécile Wajsbrot, translated from the French by Tess Lewis

Nevermore is a … record of the act of translation as an all-consuming thought process … Wajsbrot could not have created such a complete account of a translator’s experience without having herself translated Woolf’s The Waves …”

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on Flesh, a novel by David Szalay

“… a wise and haunting book that permits the reader to draw conclusions as it chronicles one man’s journey through the frequent trembles of life.”

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on Exit Zero, stories by Marie-Helene Bertino

“The cumulative effect of reading the new stories is that you feel changed by them, intoxicated, as if you expect something very different from reality after having tasted Bertino’s version.”

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on Bumblebees, poems by Deborah Meadows

Bumblebees has the kinetic energy of recycling, rearranging, assembling — not simply a way to look at art, but also a method we can follow in our attempts to mitigate the planet’s degradation.”

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on Take My Name but Say It Slow, essays by Thomas Dai

“How do you identify yourself when traditional modes of identification, right down to your very name, are troubled? Take My Name is essentially a catalogue of the methods, all imperfect, that Dai has chosen.”