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It’s easy to see why New Directions made such a tangible physical object out of Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp by showcasing it in a starkly b...

A writer will sometimes swim into my ken like a...like a duck swimming through an open window. A few of Barbara Comyns’ books had be...

Anna Kavan’s Ice certainly counts among the most singular – and intense – works of literature I’ve read. I struggled with it at first, alt...

That Frederic Prokosch’s literary star has all but vanished in the nearly 80 years since his novel The Asiatics exploded onto the litera...

One writer who certainly did not need 250 pages to answer the question  “Why read?” was Patrick Leigh Fermor, who passed away thi...

First of all, I just have to mention to whom it may concern that the French literature section of the library needs some attention – ...