Numéro Cinq at the Movies: Johan Renck’s “Pass This On,” Introduced by R W Gray
Johan Renck’s music video for The Knife’s “Pass This On” throws us into one of the most uncomfortable football award banquets ever, complete with three of my favourite things: drag queens, The Knife’s...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like Living Here — From Jennifer McGuiggan in Greensburg, PA
You try to tell people what it’s like living here, but you’re not sure you know. You’ve lived here nearly your whole life, and you’re numb to this place. You have to push yourself to see it. —...
View ArticleDesperate Wagers: A Review of Scars by Juan José Saer — Richard Farrell
“There’s only genre—the novel. It took years to discover this. There’s only three things in literature: perception, language, and form. Literature gives form, through language, to specific perceptions....
View ArticleScars: Fiction — Juan José Saer
Herewith, an excerpt from Juan José Saer’s novel Scars (originally published in Argentina in 1969). Open Letter Books has released a new English translation from Steve Dolph. Saer, who died in 2005, is...
View ArticleCapturing the Equivalences: Interview With Translator Steve Dolph — Richard...
Steve Dolph is the translator of Juan José Saer‘s novels The Sixty-Five Years of Washington and Scars, both published by Open Letter Books. He is currently at work on a translation of Saer’s...
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