in lieu of a field guide

  I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being like a nearly inv...

  Before I get depressed about finishing a draft of a post on the state of this blog or the state of my reading, I decided to list books to ...

Last October, someone from Canada emailed to ask if I have updated figures (gender statistics) to a 2016 blog post Women in Translation Mont...

Notes on The Pole: A Novel by J.M. Coetzee (Liveright, 2023 ) 1. "The decision to invite the Pole ... is arrived at only after some so...

  Does he know what his sentence is?” “No,” the officer said, wanting to continue with his explanations, but the traveler interrupted him:...