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Latin America’s Kafka: What a Sly Argentine Has in Common with a Tubercular Czech

Some of the 20th century’s most innovative fiction came out of Prague and Buenos Aires. Scott Esposito argues that there’s a potent link between the plots being written in each. [more]

Essay by Scott Esposito

Reading Claude Cahun

French gender-bending artist Claude Cahun is generally known as a photographer. She also left behind an impressive body of literature. Lauren Elkin argues should it be read, especially by adherents of challenging Surrealist works. [more]

Essay by Lauren Elkin

A Clean, Well-Lighted Place: Hard Situations and Easy Morals in Tobias Wolff’s Short Fiction

John Lingan considers Tobias Wolff’s new, career-spanning collection of short fiction. He finds a writer in great debt to Hemingway and unable go embrace the grotesque. [more]

Essay by John Lingan

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