Monthly Archives: October 2025

This is a long poem, told in mostly rhyming couplets, about a woman who blows her life up by leaving her (seemingly very kind and understanding) boyfriend to pursue an intense love affair with another woman. I couldn’t help chuckling to myself, at times, about how it’s such a quintessentially “cool New Yorker” kind ofContinueContinue reading “Couplets, Maggie Millner”

I’m translating an essay on free indirect discourse in Polish literature that focuses heavily on Żeromski, whom I haven’t read since graduate school, so I thought the time was ripe to revisit his work and got the audiobook of this one for a recent road trip. The opening is incredible — it’s a really remarkableContinueContinue reading “Wierna Rzeka, Stefan Żeromski”

I admittedly haven’t read most of the books that did make the Booker Shortlist, so I’m prepared to be corrected, but for now at least I think it’s a travesty that Endling didn’t make the cut. But I suspect I know why — I imagine that the postmodern meta flourishes make the book seem unseriousContinueContinue reading “Endling, Maria Reva”

“Moja książka jest właśnie propozycja bardziej świadomego bzykania w lesie; połączenie erotycznej energii z miłością do natury i piękna.” Czarujący ale i też czasem wzruszający, nawet filozoficzny przewodnik — raczej zbiór esejów — o seksie na plein airze. Fajnie się czyta.