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The Sweet Dove Died

The Sweet Dove Died

Barbara Pym

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 15, 2025

The Stone Door">Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s <emThe Stone Door">

The Stone Door">Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

"Magic and ideology are both practices of belief."

By Celia Bell | July 22, 2025

Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt">A Small Press Book We Love: </brLoved and Missed by Susie Boyt">

Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt">A Small Press Book We Love:
Loved and Missed by Susie Boyt

By Julia Hass | March 21, 2025

A Poem by Ron Padgett">“Robert Creeley” <brA Poem by Ron Padgett">

A Poem by Ron Padgett">“Robert Creeley”
A Poem by Ron Padgett

From the Collection “Pink Dust”

By Ron Padgett | March 13, 2025

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal

A Selection of Gorey's Colorful, Curious Letters to Tom Fitzharris

By Literary Hub | February 14, 2025

Sun City

Sun City

Tove Jansson (trans. Thomas Teal)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | February 10, 2025

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Fire in Fire Season">Our Burning Era: Reading George Stewart’s Fire in Fire Season

By Ben Woollard | October 29, 2024

Mourning a Breast

By Lit Hub Excerpts | July 10, 2024

Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

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My Stupid Intentions

My Stupid Intentions

Bernardo Zannoni (trans. Alex Andriesse)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | June 12, 2023

The Stronghold

The Stronghold

Dino Buzzati (trans. Lawrence Venuti)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | May 24, 2023

The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales

The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales

Ferit Edgü (trans. Aron Aji)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 5, 2023

A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

A Dreamer of Worlds: Anna Badkhen Explores Ethiopa (and the Etymologies of Maps)

“What each map always implies is the observer, you.”

By Anna Badkhen | October 24, 2022

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

“The Confessions of a Very Old Man”

Italo Svevo (trans. by Frederika Randall)

By Lit Hub Excerpts | September 1, 2022

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

On Claude Simon’s Classic Nouveau Roman and the Possibilities of Fragmented Narrative

The Flanders Road ">Jerry W. Carlson Deconstructs The Flanders Road

By Jerry W. Carlson | July 27, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

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