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I sit this morning on the subway like a time traveler who, due to some error of calculation, has stepped into a future that is no longer his. —From “Every Day Is the Day Before” by Antonio Muñoz Molina, trans. Jeffrey T. Bersett tinyurl.com/mszsmncf

Re-reading these Prefaces with their elaborate notes...has been transformative...[Herford] reads James, generously and delicately, just as James himself advised the young writer to do in 1884. —Dean Flower on #HenryJames's The Prefaces, ed. Oliver Herford Cambridge University Press

I wondered whether, if those hills could talk, they too would have chosen to say nothing... —From “The Rest Is Silence,” a harrowing #shortstory set during the Rwandan genocide, by Brecht De Poortere Brecht De Poortere, third-prize winner of our fiction contest tinyurl.com/3m8zf5nj

Gypsy is a Shakespearean show in that it can be read in multiple ways, all of which are valid and all of which are emotionally powerful....It’s a slippery, dangerous, volatile musical—and there aren’t that many of them. —Erick Neher reviews Gypsy tinyurl.com/mw7uk5rw

Among contemporary poets with a formalist instinct, Ange Mlinko surely stands out as the most accomplished discoverer of rhymes since—well, perhaps since Byron. —Bruce Whiteman reviews Foxglovewise by Ange Mlinko Farrar,Straus&Giroux tinyurl.com/32y74m6n

…Somehow you sound near and far at once, as if I stood outside a cave you’re hiding in. —From Beyond Where Words Can Go by Richard Smith tinyurl.com/wxp9wfjw

Nowinski’s nudes inhabit a crepuscular world in which creamy flesh glows against dim, indeterminate grounds. They are at once convincing suggestions of bodies and celebrations of the fluidity of paint. —Karen Wilkin on Janice Nowinski, Thomas Erben Gallery tinyurl.com/2ud37r44

All these things are as eerily gorgeous as they are appalling,... managing the violence of history with artistic skill. —Tom Wilhelmus reviews We Do Not Part by Han Kang, trans. by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris from Hogarth Books tinyurl.com/2eb4tswz #bookreview #bookrec