The Bird in 39 Main Street
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Massachusetts Review
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…such reviews, the book succeeds in representing distant experience as universal; it enables readers to empathize deeply with the main character and to gain an understanding of the Croatian war….
Read MoreIs anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst February 14 to May 9, 2025 As I stepped into the main gallery…
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…onto the main character as negra and becomes pivotal to the story. The translation of racial terms is always a difficult issue, as they singularly embody national and cultural ideologies and histories,…
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…to the stereotypical academic American poet, safe in a tenured job, writing cloistered “academic” poetry. (My anti-Establishment stance included “establishment” poetry.) He was a poet of Main Street, not some…
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…by Gabriel Chevallier in this outstanding novel. Fear is an intensely realist novel centered on the war history of its main character and first-person narrator, Jean Dartemont. Divided into two…
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…project, such as The Suicide Museum, where I inserted ideas and whole sections from potential novels I had been working on into the main plotline. (Thus, I had the hapless…
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THOUGH UNFINISHED, the most necessary Kafka masterpiece today—as we slowly sort through where we’ve been for the past year or so—is surely “Der Bau,” first translated into English by Edwin…
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I OWE A GREAT debt of gratitude to the Massachusetts Review for 35 years of joyous hard work and a wealth of education. As I step down from my role as poetry…
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…reshaping it. To dedicate one’s life to translating, or to editing, in short, cannot be seen as a subsidiary or sideshow activity: as main as any event, it may even…
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