Poetics of Work by Noemi Lefebvre
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
Tag: translated
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
well, it’s a “classic” and now i’ve read it
The Lying Life of Adults by Elena Ferrante
yes it is good and i got to read it slightly early and for free
The Years by Annie Ernaux
cracking under lockdown and stunning books
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
The Taiga Syndrome by Cristina Rivera Garza
i read a book wrong / nothing compares 2 Proust
Insane by Rainald Goetz
an intense, disconcerting, spectacular novel
This Little Art by Kate Briggs
a wonderful, unpretentious, essay on translation
Farewell, Cowboy by Olja Savičević
some more great balkan writing
Triumph Of The Now 