Eugene Lim’s novel explores mortality by way of Buddhism, cybernetics, and Asian identity.
Nolan Kelly
Nolan Kelly is a writer and filmmaker currently living in Brooklyn.
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Assemblage Art for the Age of the Online Shopper
Bader brings a conceptual playfulness to found-object assemblage, updating Marcel Duchamp’s concept of the assisted readymade for the age of the online shopper.
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A Freewheeling Translation of Dante’s Purgatorio
Mary Jo Bang’s interpretation updates this 14th-century poem for 20th-century readers.
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A World Made of Words
Garielle Lutz’s sentences are among the most original in modern English, their linguistic specificity making them virtually untranslatable.
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André Gide’s Pioneering Autofiction
Intended as a satire of the Parisian Symbolist milieu, Gide’s novel Marshlands is a sendup of writing itself.
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Stories of Memory, Loss, and Paranoia
In Dorthe Nors’s minimalist fiction, other people are both an opportunity and a threat.
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The Last of the Storytellers
In his fiction, Nikolai Leskov writes as if he is overhearing the stories being told.
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Fernando Pessoa and His Fictional Coterie of Poets
The Portuguese author concealed his identity behind aliases, or what he called heteronyms, who served as guides to living.
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César Aira Portrays Artforum as an Object of Desire
The novelist transforms the magazine into an ambiguous symbol of everything its reader might lack.
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Climbing a Symbolic Mountain With a Surrealist Writer
Long out of print, Mount Analogue, René Daumal’s cult classic, offers a tale of renunciation and self-acceptance.
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Jonas Mekas’s Diary Reveals His Uncertain Sense of Self
This first volume of the filmmaker’s journals charts his progress from immigrant life in Williamsburg to the center of the American avant-garde.
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Raymond Roussel’s Stories Are Based on Complex Word Games
A precursor to literary surrealism, Roussel employed pastiche and mathematics to prioritize form over content.