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Bring Back Cortázar
By Alejandro ZambraAlejandro Zambra proposes we revisit the work of a literary legend.
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By Sarah Kay, Kaveh Akbar, and Claire SchwartzIn our column Poetry Rx, readers write in with a specific emotion, and our resident poets take turns prescribing the perfect poems to match. This week, Kaveh Akbar is on the line.
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Uwe Johnson: Not This But That
By Damion SearlsThe art of translation isn’t primarily about words. It’s about doing in your language, as a whole, what the original writer is doing in his or her language as a whole—and sometimes about reconsidering, or reimagining, what that language is.
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from "Misérable Miracle"
By Henri MichauxHenri Michaux, the famous French poet and painter, has long been interested in the effects of mescaline, the drug derived from the Peyotl cactus which traditionally has been taken by the Indians of Mexico and the American Southwest to induce ecstatic religious visions. More recently it has attracted the interest of psychologists investigating the physical roots of mental disorder and of Aldous Huxley who describes his experiences with it in The Doors of Perception.
From the Archive, Issue 15
Miscellaneous
A Little Pain
By James TateI hold no greater value / than the secret / Please believe I strive / to share ...
