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PoetryThe Colophon

Fragments shored against ruins: Matthew Hollis charts the convoluted and painful path toward T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece in a new “biography” of The Waste Land

January 7, 2023January 7, 2023

Eliot's vision of a fallen world blighted by urban decay and a somnambulant populace continues to divide readers.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Nobel Prize winner Miguel Ángel Asturias’s classic dictator novel Mr. President has uncomfortable resonances in our modern era

December 20, 2022December 20, 2022

Rather than a work of prototypical magic realism, El Señor Presidente is more reflective of straightforward modernism.

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The ColophonWriters and Writing

A portrait of the artist as a dead man: controversial proposal floated to repatriate the remains of James Joyce

October 23, 2019June 14, 2022

Two Dublin city councillors have a plan to exhume the bones of the great modernist writer and return them to his birthplace.

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International LiteratureNovelsThe Colophon

Anatomy of melancholy: Kevin Barry’s Night Boat to Tangier

October 18, 2019June 14, 2022

Kevin Barry’s third novel features two career criminals waiting at a seedy Spanish port for the arrival of the estranged daughter of one of them.

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International LiteratureThe Colophon

White water rafting along the stream of consciousness: Lucy Ellmann’s Ducks, Newburyport

September 26, 2019June 14, 2022

In its entirety, Ducks, Newburyport represents a towering fictional edifice that is as engaging and readable as it is formally ambitious.

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