In this miniature masterpiece, Róbert Gál—whom Joshua Cohen has called “a phenomenon”—conducts a noble experiment in uncategorizable prose. One long, unbroken paragraph, blending memoir, fiction, and
Collected Stories is an authoritative new translation of the complete fiction of Bruno Schulz, whose work has influenced writers as various as Salman Rushdie, Cynthia Ozick, Jonathan Safran Foer, Phil
Until now, there has been little scholarly attention given to the ways in which Eastern European Holocaust fiction can contribute to current debates about transnational and transgenerational memory. Y
born in transit / I came upon on the place of deathSo Ryszard Krynicki begins the early lyric that gave his 1969 debut volume Act of Birth its title (a poem which ends: “I live / in the place of death
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A new essay collection by the noted Polish poetFor Adam Zagajewski—one of Poland’s great poets—the project of writing, whether it be poetry or prose, is an occasion to advance what David Wojahn has ch
This Could Have Been a Simple Story delves, more deeply than it would seem at first glance, into analysis of familiar environments, of cultural contexts, and of gambles--that things could be different
Love at Last Sight is a fierce novel about marital abuse, written for wives, girlfriends, mothers, and all women who have experienced trauma in their relationships. Rudan writes with conviction and st
