The Archive as Potter’s Field: Hannah Regel’s The Last Sane Woman
As the handwritten stories unfold, the lives of the two ceramicists come closer and closer.
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Kassia Oset
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Kassia Oset is a writer living in Cleveland. She is the co-host of Unburied Books, a podcast reading its way through the NYRB Classics.
A Dance of One’s Own: Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera
The return of someone deceased is a common enough trope, but where it is normally horrific . . . Polek initially runs jolly with it.
The Cost of Belonging: Augusto Higa Oshiro’s The Enlightenment of Katzuo Nakamatsu
In this vortex of language and culture, the translator’s task is all the more essential and Jennifer Shyue’s translation from Spanish is both precise and poetic. In addition to the music of the prose, Shyue does justice to the multiple vernacular at play, bringing two unlike cultures into the portrait of a single man.