Wyatt Mason

Outdoing Reality

The absurd incursions of the real into the intelligent life of the imagination are central to the Afghan American writer Jamil Jan Kochai’s fiction.

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

by Jamil Jan Kochai

September 22, 2022 issue

Jacques Derrida (center) and Bernard-Henri Lévi at the Sorbonne, 1979

Imagining the Real

Laurent Binet’s ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

The Seventh Function of Language

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

La vie professionelle de Laurent B.

by Laurent Binet

HHhH

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

July 19, 2018 issue

Pierre Michon in the village of Châtelus-le-Marcheix, central France, 2009

Violence and Creativity

An exceptional translator of Pierre Michon’s work has, at last, appeared

Small Lives

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Rimbaud the Son

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

The Eleven

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Masters and Servants

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French, illustrated, and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason

The Origin of the World

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason, afterword by Roger Shattuck

Winter Mythologies and Abbots

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Ann Jefferson

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September 28, 2017 issue

Maylis de Kerangal, Marseille, October 2010

The Big Beat

The Heart

by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

April 21, 2016 issue

To Be a Muslim in the West

The Moor’s Account

by Laila Lalami

February 11, 2016 issue

George Saunders, Oneonta, New York, November 2012

Make This Not True

Tenth of December

by George Saunders

February 6, 2014 issue

David Foster Wallace, Syracuse, New York, 1995

Smarter than You Think

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

by David Lipsky

July 15, 2010 issue

Groping in the Digital Dark

Over the course of the next year, nearly forty 3-D feature films are slated to appear in theaters. But Michel Gondry’s new, and decidedly 2-D, Thorn in the Heart is the work of director who, for two decades, has been unstintingly innovative on a flat screen.

May 6, 2010

Louis-Ferdinand Céline with his dogs, Meudon, France, circa 1955

Uncovering Céline

Bagatelles pour un massacre [Trifles for a Massacre]

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

L'École des cadavres [The School of Corpses]

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Les Beaux Draps [A Fine Mess]

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Normance

by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated from the French and with an introduction by Marlon Jones

January 14, 2010 issue

An Englishman in Barbados selling his mistress into slavery; eighteenth-century engraving

The Color Money

A Mercy

by Toni Morrison

March 12, 2009 issue