Perfecting the Art of Pedantry
February 20, 2025
Augusto Monterroso’s Rube Goldberg machine of self-critique.
Bailey Trela
Bailey Trela is a writer in New York whose work has appeared in Commonweal, Frieze, The Cleveland Review of Books, and elsewhere.
Soul Aristocrats
April 23, 2024
The fairy-tale mysticism of Cristina Campo.
Empty Suits
August 2, 2023
In the spy novels of Javier Marías, the late author never stopped reinventing himself.
Fleur Jaeggy’s Mourning Exercise
September 30, 2021
On the rain-soaked tribute of The Water Statues.
Tove Ditlevsen’s Fragmentary Self
January 25, 2021
On the radical facticity of The Copenhagen Trilogy.