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… convey enough of the magic of the original to draw in overcommitted American readers. We might compare the shift from … Review by British novelist Adam Thirlwell. As Thirlwell points out, Bellos claims that there is no reason that … Poland. The family name was Peretz originally: His father died fighting the Germans in 1940; his mother probably died …

… noticing. This past summer, a prominent nonprofit theatre company launched a campaign asking “Why Are Women’s Voices … No one addresses a group of mixed sex by saying “hey, gals.” If someone begins a joke with “A man walks into a … day it stops, which I well understand may not be before I die. That’s fine with me. But this example illustrates the …

… a Buddhist graveyard by two barefoot snipers who will not die no matter how many mortars we walk their way. They keep … These wraiths sing with their crack and whine, We will die to hold you here while the others slip away toward the mountains. What will you die for? Me hunkering behind a pitted tombstone staring at a …

… man. . . twisted bit of flesh in a black cape.” When Bourne died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, he left a mark on … moral and “contemporaneous.” He believed that the time had come for a transvaluation of values that would confront even … revitalized the Moscow Art Theater. It was produced in 1926 by Stanislavsky, a liberal but no Bolshevik, according to …

… are chill and coarse. He had thought himself such a good soldier these past three months, had taken to the army as if … friends, admirers. It helped that he was generous with his comrades, teaching them his mother’s tricks: dipping a rag … some poetry, something about a panther in a cage— Ihm ist, als ob es tausend Stäbe gäbe / Und hinter tausend Stäben …