Elise Levine's Critical Reads
Elise Levine is the author of the story collection Driving Men Mad and the novel Requests and Dedications. Her work has also appeared in Blackbird, Ploughshares, The Journey Prize Anthology, and Best Canadian Stories. Originally from Toronto, ON, she now lives in Baltimore, MD, and is Director of the MA in Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Levine discusses Blue Field, Tue. 6/20 6pm at 57th Street Books, in conversation with Suzanne Buffam. RSVP and details here.
The imagination, with its twinned capacity for magnitude and intensive focus on the specific, shapes the generosity of witness. Here are some works of fiction and one of poetry that embody such largess.
Injun by Jordan Abel
Exit West by Mohsin Hamid
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld
Insurrections by Rion Amilcar Scott
So Much for that Winter by Dorthe Nors
The Last Lover by Can Xue
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Dorthe Nors follows up her acclaimed story collection Karate Chop with a pair of novellas that playfully chart the aftermath of two very twenty-first-century romances. In "Days," a woman in her late thirties records her life in a series of lists, giving shape to the tumult of her...
Winner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature
In Can Xue's extraordinary book, we encounter a full assemblage of husbands, wives, and lovers. Entwined in complicated, often tortuous...