My Brilliant Fiend
Elfriede Jelinek’s screwball zombie epic
Texas Excess
Carmen Boullosa upends the Lone Star State’s mythology
Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
Analyzing the French in Mad Men’s ‘New Business’
French is used heavily throughout the episode, as Megan’s mother and sister help her move on from her life in New York. One conversation in particular stuck out to me.…
You Can’t Go Home Again
Ágota Kristóf’s confounding fictions of exile
Arsène Lupin
By Sonallah Ibrahim Translated by Emily Drumsta
A DEFENSE OF JOY
by Mario Benedetti translated by Maria Popova
Vietnamese female voice once haunted American soldiers
The voice of Ms. Trinh Thi Ngo (Hanoi Hannah) on the radio once made many American soldiers discouraged in the unjust war in Vietnam. Thứ năm, 1/5/2025, 14:45 (GMT+7) A…
Mornings Without Mii
Mayumi Inaba writes a heartbreaking story for pet lovers
Front Lines
Peter Weiss’s literature of revolt