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Eine subtitled mississippianische Re-post (nach Williams)

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Have you read Humorous Elements  in the Short Stories and Novels  of the Southern Writer Eudora Welty … in German? Ja, Darling! — * a (reverse) translation of Jonathan Williams’ ‘A Subtle Mississippian Riposte (for L.Z.)’ in Louis Zukofsky, or whoever someone else thought he was: a collection of responses to the work of Louis […]

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Flak Jacket to Dust Jacket

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us About Conflict, from The Iliad to Catch-22 By Christopher Coker (Hurst 325pp £25) My Life as a Foreign Country By Brian Turner (Jonathan Cape 240pp £16.99) Seamus Heaney once remarked upon the heroes of antiquity that it is ‘not so much their procedures on the page which are […]

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Eight debut novels

Monday, September 1, 2014

Currently sitting at 12 to 1 for this year’s Booker Prize, first-time novelist Paul Kingsnorth has set the cat among the pigeons through the disarmingly original expedient of submitting his offering in a fictional language. Composed in what Kingsnorth calls the ‘shadow tongue’ of ‘eald anglisc’, The Wake (Unbound 365pp £16.99) explores one angle of […]

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Now I have to pretend to like graphic novels, too?

Monday, August 20, 2007

A review of Douglas Wolk’s Reading Comics: How Graphic Novels Work and What They Mean. — For Stop Smiling

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Zacarias Moussaoui vs the State of Virginia

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Why the US should avoid a tempting catharsis in the case of the would-be 9/11 hijacker. — For The Atlantic Affairs

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