A Brief Stop: On the Road From Auschwitz by Göran RosenbergTranslated by Sarah Death. Other Press.After enduring the ghetto of Lodz, the camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and many other t…
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November 4, 2014All Days are Night by Peter StammTranslated by Michael Hofmann. Other Press.After a car crash that leaves her husband dead and her own body disfigured, Gillian must put her life back together…
January 27, 2014As a follow-up to our post “Protesting on the Square in Kiev” on December 11, 2013, we received the letter below from Yuri Andrukhovych, who is on the front lines of the protests…
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