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Patriotism
By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary legend. With Patriotism, Mishima …
The Bridegroom Was a Dog
The Bridegroom Was a Dog is perhaps the Japanese-German writer Yoko Tawada’s most famous story. Its initial publication in 1998 garnered admiration from The New Yorker, who praised …
The Night Before Christmas
It is the night before Christmas and devilry is afoot. The devil steals the moon and hides it in his pocket. He is thus free to run amok and inflicts all sorts of wicked mischief …
Tales of Desire
Everything and Nothing
Everything and Nothing collects the best of Borges highly influential work written in the 1930s and 40s that foresaw the internet ( Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius ), quantum mechanics …
Bad Nature or With Elvis in Mexico
The Hall of the Singing Caryatids
After auditioning for the part as a singing geisha at a dubious bar, Lena and eleven other “lucky” girls are sent to work at a posh underground nightclub reserved exclusively for …
Hydriotaphia
Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginningwith observations on the …