Tag: translation

Life in East Germany on display in a strange Berlin museum.

Once the bone has been ground up, who, through muslin, would recognize her hand from a dog’s paw?

Not much ever happened in Blaustein, but, even if it did, I would still remember the words she said, because it was the first time I’d heard them used, and their meaning, the parentheses they opened in my German existence every time someone used them, shocked me and made me feel like an intruder.

I thought I had died and that death meant repeating a name forever.

The Paris Review editor on his new translation of That Smell by Sonallah Ibrahim.

Let us legally do what we must do in the dark