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A Review of Children in Reindeer Woods by Kristin Ómarsdóttir

April 30, 2018

Jena Salon

Translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith (Rochester, NY: Open Letter, 2012) One day recently I was out hiking with my husband in the woods by our new house, and we came upon a stranger. At first he pointed in … Continued

A Review of The Colonel by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi

May 16, 2016

Matt McGregor

Translated from the Persian by Tom Patterdale (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2012) In 1953, the CIA arrested the civilian Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadeq, and reinstated Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Mossadeq, a democrat who had nationalized the oil industry, was thrown … Continued

A Review of Clean by Kate Northrop

July 30, 2015

Ryan Romine

(New York, NY: Persea, 2011) One blistery spring evening last year, I wandered into the Free Library of Philadelphia for a poetry reading. It was Monday. I sat between a throng of grad students and a pair of office workers, attempting to … Continued

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