Dueling Words in Jennifer Croft’s “The Extinction of Irena Rey”

Dueling Words in Jennifer Croft's "The Extinction of Irena Rey"

[ad_1] Jennifer Croft’s debut novel, The Extinction of Irena Rey, begins with a warning from the translator—not from Croft herself, who is one of the most well-regarded translators in English today. Another translator, one Croft wrote into being, speaks: cautioning readers from proceeding. “Should you choose to keep reading,” notes this translator before the novel … Read more

Words Transcend Walls in “Unknown Language” – Chicago Review of Books

Words Transcend Walls in “Unknown Language” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] It’s easy to become caught up in the conventions of realist literary fiction as representative of fiction itself. After all, it’s a reign that has stretched from Balzac to the present day, and the modern strain of American cinematic fiction only reinforces this understanding. But the expanse of work situated in and against realism … Read more