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Silent Friends

Alex Lanz

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Anna Seghers’s Blood Money

Anna Seghers. Blood Money (1933), Translated by Lucy Jones. NYRB Classics, 2026. 159 pp.

It’s time for a short note on a short novel by one of our favorites Anna Seghers.

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Carson McCullers’s Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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Carson McCullers. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940). Mariner, 2000. 359 pp.

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Ricardo Piglia’s Artificial Respiration

Ricardo Piglia. Artificial Respiration (1981), Translated by Daniel Balderston. Duke, 1994. 229 pp.

After 1976, when the military returned to political power in Argentina, they closed down Congress and banned the trade unions. All levels o...

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Henry James's Roderick Hudson

Henry James. Roderick Hudson (1875). Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907. 527 pp.

In Watch & Ward, James’s characters exchange banter here and there about Europe vs. America. A grand tour of the peninsula seems to be a right of passage for the w...

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Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman

Manuel Puig. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976). Vintage International, 1983. 281 pp.

For various reasons it was time to catch up on post-Boom Latin American fiction reading. But maybe that was a mistake?

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