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How Living in Naples Changed Shirley Hazzard’s Life
“If you come to live there, come to know it, you will live in other times.”
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Brigitta Olubas
| November 15, 2022
Paris is a Party, Paris is a Ghost
David Hoon Kim
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| August 4, 2021
Immediate Family
Ashley Nelson Levy
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| August 2, 2021
Dispatches From a Microlanguage: An Icelandic Reading List
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By
Thora Hjorleifsdottir, translated by Larissa Kyzer
| July 12, 2021
André Aciman: On Yearning for the Not-Yet and What Could Have Been
"The irrealis mood disrupts all verbal tenses, moods, and aspects."
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André Aciman
| January 21, 2021
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Daniel Simpson
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By
Adam Nicolson
| January 21, 2020
The Black Cathedral
Marcial Gala (Trans. Anna Kushner)
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| January 8, 2020
A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster
Sarah Abrevaya Stein on the Great Fire of Salonica
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Sarah Abrevaya Stein
| November 22, 2019
Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
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Nicola Gardini Refutes the Biases Towards the So-Called Dead Language
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Nicola Gardini
| November 18, 2019
The Mutations
Jorge Comensal (trans. Charlotte Whittle)
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| November 14, 2019
Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits
Advice for Writers on Editing, Revising, and Taking Notes
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Lydia Davis
| November 12, 2019
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen
Alix Kates Shulman
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| October 8, 2019
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