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Ink Dots

Translated into English by Alta L. Price

Written in Italian by Matteo Terzaghi

Also in: Italian, German, French

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When we write a diary page, a reflection or a story, we’re split into a me and a you: the former holds the pen, the latter evaluates what comes out. But in the concentration that writing requires, sometimes we’re cast into a more impersonal realm, above or beyo

The Sleep of Fire

Translated into English by Alta Price

Written in Italian by Emanuele Trevi

Also in: Italian, German

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Everything that you think is wrong.
Everything that you thought was wrong.
Everything that you’ll think will be wrong. Fairy tales, somehow or other, echo one another, always telling the same story. But everyone has their own, like a zodiac sign, an

The Translator and the Iceberg

Translated into English by Alta L. Price

Written in Italian by Silvia Pareschi | A specimen of Babel: Stories on the loss of the earth’s one speech and the confusion of languages

Also in: Italian, Georgian

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Translating Hemingway means seeing first-hand, among other things, how his famous iceberg theory works. This cornerstone of his practice was first described in Death in the Afternoon: “If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit th

Going to see the Invisible and The Glacial Erratic from Ufficio proiezioni luminose

Translated into English by Alta L. Price

Written in Italian by Matteo Terzaghi

Also in: Italian, French, German, Spanish

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Going to see the Invisible

Among some family keepsakes I found a photograph from the late sixties that could aptly be titled “Going to see the Invisible.” Thomas Aquinas—if memory serves and I’m not distorting his words—said that the angels have direc

The Crossroads

Translated into English by Alta L. Price

Written in German by Lukas Bärfuss

Also in: German, Italian

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Where is our fine Schweingruber heading on his moped? Does he even have a destination, and if so, where might it be, or is he just riding around the village, looking for an escape route, a way out of this universe? But there is no way out, and you and I, Anna,