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If Luce d’Eramo’s  Deviation  (1979, first   English translation 2018 by Anne Milano Appel; publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux) pro...

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

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

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

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

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