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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

“A ride on les cochons hygèniques” – Irene Handl’s The Sioux

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Little did I suspect when I stumbled upon  The Sioux  in the fiction section of a second-hand bookshop that lurking beneath its dec...
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Saturday, October 6, 2018

Domenico Starnone's Nifty Trick

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Peter Milton, illustration from "The Jolly Corner," 1979 If Domenico Starnone’s  Trick  ( Scherzetto , 2017) is any ind...
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Thursday, September 20, 2018

“She would have liked to say something about love and economy…” – Dorothy Whipple Takes on Arnold Bennett

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Dress pattern from 1930,  from the endpapers of Persephone Books' edition of High Wages “Everything was covered in 1913; it ...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

Exile's (Partial) Return: Edgardo Cozarinsky's Urban Voodoo

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Argentine filmmaker/writer Edgardo Cozarinsky’s  Urban Voodoo ( Vudú urbano , 1985) for a moment seemed a poor choice for   Richard ...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

An Affirming Flame: Olivia Manning’s Levant Trilogy

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Dorian of Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau , having succeeded in getting me hooked on English writer Olivia Manning’s semi-auto-biographic...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

“Won’t the dead come to talk for just half an hour with this sick man?” – Marcel Schwob’s Imaginary Lives Remixed

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