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Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect.

List of revealing questions (h/t People Watching newsletter) https://t.co/jHXXmY5UNb

Yoko Tawada’s Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel , translated by Susan Bernofsky, set in post-lockdown Berlin, is an absurd, dark, dreamlike narrative that meditates on warfare, religion, memory, migration, and belonging through the strange consciousness of a literary researcher, Patrik. A Celan scholar who self-identifies as “the patient,”... See more

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