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On the calculation of volume by Solvej Balle
What would you do if you knew the entire choreography of a single day by heart? If the leek you’d pulled from the garden for stock rerooted itself to the soil every morning? It’s easy to feel trapped in life even when there’s unpredictability and variety to the sounds, colors, weather, and conversations. A fresh…
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The Maze of Transparencies, by Karen An-Hwei Lee
Can a poet’s duel with words predict the fate of the world? After a technocracy collapse in a near, agrarian future fraught with ennui, a single data cloud stalks the shoulders of a former data analyst, waxing poetic overload…. Her name is Penny, and she is one of the last of her kind. She has…
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The Book of Anna by Carmen Boullosa, Translated by Samantha Schnee
“IN THIS CONTINUATION OF ANNA KARENINA’S LEGACY, RUSSIA SIMMERS ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE AND THE STORIES THAT HAVE LONG BEEN KEPT SECRET FINALLY COME TO LIGHT.” ~ Publisher A riotous matryoshka, The Book of Anna folds several dimensions into a dense yet hardly claustrophobic 182 pages. Boullosa’s story begins with a ploy: Clementine, an…
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