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The Ballad of Steinbjørn Jacobsen

The Ballad of Steinbjørn Jacobsen

On Escorting a Faeroese Poet-Hero Around the USA

By Eric Wilson | July 1, 2015

Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

Bohumil Hrabal: Of Beer, Whores, and Samizdat

On the Greatest Czech Writer of the Past Century

By Joshua Cohen | June 30, 2015

Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist

Haruki Murakami: The Moment I Became a Novelist

At a Baseball Game in 1978, The Writer Who Almost Wasn't

By Haruki Murakami | June 25, 2015

Five Quebecois Writers You Should Know

Five Quebecois Writers You Should Know

The Most Innovate Writing on the Continent, Just Across the Border

By Steven Beattie | June 24, 2015

The Quiet Rebels of Russian Translation

The Quiet Rebels of Russian Translation

In conversation with Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear

By Paris Review | June 22, 2015

Poetry as a Second Language

Poetry as a Second Language

On Leaving Russia, and Writing in English

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Lydia Davis at the End of the World

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