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Save the date! Next Reading Group: 25th March GMT, online.
We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
January 29, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Save the date! Next Reading Group: 25th March GMT, online.
We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. by Stephen Kessler
tr. by Stephen Kessler
December 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Jorge Luis Borges
tr. by Stephen Kessler
tr. by Stephen Kessler
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Wellfleet, Cape Cod
(1904)
Wellfleet, Cape Cod
(1904)
December 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)
Wellfleet, Cape Cod
(1904)
Wellfleet, Cape Cod
(1904)
Guy de Maupassant
(excerpt from: Nightmare / Paris Tales)
tr. by Helen Constantine
(excerpt from: Nightmare / Paris Tales)
tr. by Helen Constantine
December 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Guy de Maupassant
(excerpt from: Nightmare / Paris Tales)
tr. by Helen Constantine
(excerpt from: Nightmare / Paris Tales)
tr. by Helen Constantine
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Gustave Dore's drawing (1882) was made for Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem, 'The Raven.' It depicts the narrator opening his chamber door to a mysterious tapping, as described in the poem: 'I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.'
November 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Gustave Dore's drawing (1882) was made for Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem, 'The Raven.' It depicts the narrator opening his chamber door to a mysterious tapping, as described in the poem: 'I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.'
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I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
‘I knew I was doing something I shouldn’t’: Karl Ove Knausgård on the fallout from My Struggle and the dark side of ambition
The Norwegian author on his autofictional epic, moving to London, and the psychopath at the heart of his new novel
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
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October 25, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Rainer Maria Rilke
September 15, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Rainer Maria Rilke
Artists in Exile
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
August 25, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Artists in Exile
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
New York, 1942
photography by Hermann Landshoff
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C. P. Cavafy
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
August 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
C. P. Cavafy
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
tr. by Stratis Haviaras
Ady Fidelin, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray (1939)
photo by Lee Miller
photo by Lee Miller
August 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Ady Fidelin, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray (1939)
photo by Lee Miller
photo by Lee Miller
“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
April 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.”
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
“...On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“...On that best portion of a good man's life;
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.”
William Wordsworth
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Rip Pierre Joris.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
February 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Rip Pierre Joris.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.
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Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris
RIP Pierre
RIP Pierre
February 27, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris
RIP Pierre
RIP Pierre
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"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? "
Lawrence Durrell,
Lawrence Durrell,
February 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? "
Lawrence Durrell,
Lawrence Durrell,
Hervé Guibert
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Hervé Guibert
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Chambre de Mathieu
c.1989
© Christine Guibert
Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris
Sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
February 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Sappho
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian
Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
transl. by Aaron Poochigian