From The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky: ...

The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...

Our seminal blonde, Lorelei Lee, comes from Little Rock, Arkansas, with a dubious backstory full of intrigue. An archetypal faux-naïf, she uses her perceived naïveté to get the better of the gentlemen ...

PART I--THE SOLDIER'S MARCH GENERAL:(Wry, weary, humane)A victory march?Almost. Not quite.The enemy capitalIs nearly in sight.The decisive battlesHave all been fought and won.In a very short time, now ...

My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started in my childhood, when I completely failed to learn Russian, and though an inability to function in a writer’s original ...

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It begins in the back of the head,gathering force like the strangler’smop in Slam sweeping across the floor.

Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her breakthrough international success came with The Lover ...

Vladimir Sorokin, however, is alive; he is quite alive, and when I asked him how and why (along with a clutch of other ...

The evening is balmy on Little Island. Already, I’ve forgotten that there’s a highway just on the other side of the slope, beyond which programmers are riding scooters home from the Google offices and ...

I met the novelist Anuradha Roy in Delhi in the mid-nineties, when she was an editor at Oxford University Press and I had just published my first book. Not long after that, she moved to a Himalayan ...