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Charlotte Whittle
How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece
Irene Vallejo on Publishing and Distribution in Antiquity
By
Irene Vallejo
| October 18, 2022
Mario Vargas Llosa on
Retrospective
, a Novel of Never-Ending War That Resists Easy Answers
“It is the job of readers whose sensitivity is awakened by what is imagined there to know how to respond.”
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| September 23, 2022
All Things Are Possible: Mario Vargas Llosa on the Eternal Youth of Flaubert’s Writing
"If we are to be honest, the true creator of the modern novel was Flaubert."
By
Mario Vargas Llosa
| August 29, 2022
Oldladyvoice
Elisa Victoria, Translated by Charlotte Whittle
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| October 7, 2021
A Game of Cutouts: On Norah Lange’s Unconventional Narrative Experimentation
Charlotte Whittle Considers
Notes from a Childhood
and the Role of Perspective
By
Charlotte Whittle
| May 5, 2021
The Mutations
Jorge Comensal (trans. Charlotte Whittle)
By
Lit Hub Excerpts
| November 14, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
The Challenges of Creating a Cover for a Forgotten Modernist Classic
By
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| September 18, 2018
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By
Sergio Ramirez
| August 3, 2018
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by
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by
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The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
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by
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"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"