in lieu of a field guide

84, Charing Cross Road (1970) by Helene Hanff (Penguin Books, 1990) The movie adaptation of 84, Charing Cross Road , which starred Ann...

"In the Penal Colony", from The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, tr. Joachim Neugroschel (S...

Art of poetry As with husked rice, a poem is pounded and polished, and then winnowed, and then offered to the public. As with ric...

How I Became a Nun (1993) by César Aira, tr. Chris Andrews (New Directions, 2006) In my second reading of How I Became a Nun I sugges...

The Seven Madmen (1929) by Roberto Arlt, translated by Nick Caistor, afterwords by Nick Caistor and Roberto Bolaño (Serpent's Tail, 2...