Melanie Basta

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Review — 26 Feb 2024

Tell by Jonathan Buckley

In Tell, a gardener talks about a wealthy businessman and art collector she used to work for in a series of interview transcripts. The man has disappeared, and the…

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Review — 25 Sep 2023

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri & Todd Portnowitz (trans.)

For the uninitiated, Roman Stories is just the kind of short story collection you’d expect from Pulitzer Prize-winning multi-lingual author Jhumpa Lahiri.

Originally written in Italian and then translated into…

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