Monthly Archives: July 2023

It’s funny, I read this like a month ago when I was feeling busy and overwhelmed and wanted a fun page-turner and then I only got more busy and overwhelmed, such that back then seems easy, because lately I barely get to read more than a few pages, or a poem or two, and itContinueContinue reading “Mapping the Edge, Sarah Dunant”

I first read this in my final year of college in a German literature course with Katja Garloff, where it completely blew my mind, and then again during my first semester of graduate school in a course with Eric Santner specifically about Sebald. I’ve been wanting to revisit it (this delightful essay by Lauren OylerContinueContinue reading “Austerlitz, W. G. Sebald”

Back in January, I set myself the goal of reading 6 Polish books this year, and halfway through the year, I was at…zero. Oooops. I was introduced to this collection by Antonia Lloyd-Jones in a (really excellent) translation workshop where we collectively worked on translating one of the stories, and maybe for that reason IContinueContinue reading “RuRu, Joanna Rudniańska”