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Wolfgang Hilbig: Old Rendering Plant

August 30, 2018

Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 1991 novel Old Rendering Plant, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Memories of Underdevelopment

August 29, 2018

This week, The Criterion Collection has released Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s 1968 film Memories of Underdevelopment.

Haruki Murakami: “The Wind Cave”

August 27, 2018

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Haruki Murakami’s “The Wind Cave,” translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. This is an excerpt from Murakami’s 2017 novel Killing Commendatore, which will be published in English in October.

Wolfgang Hilbig: The Sleep of the Righteous

August 23, 2018

Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 2002 collection of reflections, The Sleep of the Righteous, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole.

Sana Krasikov: “Ways and Means”

August 20, 2018

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Sana Krasikov’s “Ways and Means.”

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