Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'

Randall Kennedy on 'Say It Loud!'

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Book Club: Let's Talk About 'The Renovation,' by Kenan Orhan

Dilara, the heroine of Kenan Orhan’s debut novel, is a Turkish exile living in Italy and undergoing a routine bathroom renovation that turns out to be not so routine: When the contractors leave, she steps into the refurbished space and finds herself somehow transported to an actu ...  Show more

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How is it that a seven-book series written in Danish about a single day repeating over and over has become something of a sensation among the literary set? Since the English translations of Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” series were first published in the United St ...  Show more

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