An essay considering matters of personhood, immanence, and transcendence in Clarice Lispector’s 1954 novel, The Passion According to G.H.

A discussion of the Norwegian novelist Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold’s tortuous autofictional journey (back) to humanness, and beyond.

An essay on Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights that ponders questions about the novel, personhood, and “novelistic personhood.”

An essay comparing the divergent ways in which the aesthetic worlds of John Wick film franchise and Homer’s Iliad frame depictions of violence.

My take on the Hungarian phenom’s strangely apocalyptic worldbuilding.

Thoughts on gender and genderlessness in Sphinx, the beguiling 1986 novel by the Oulipian experimentalist Anne Garréta.

Reflections on the little-known princess of Zanzibar and her fascinating German-language memoir.

An essay on Amadou Hampaté Bà, an extraordinary writer from Mali, best known for his his wily 1973 novel The Strange Fate of Wangrin.

Reflections on Halldór Laxness, the Icelandic Nobel laureate whose 1952 novel Gerpla recently received a new translation by Philip Roughton.

Thoughts on the South African novelist Ivan Vladislavić and his 2004 short story collection, The Exploded View.

A short essay that discusses the work of the famed French Sinologist François Jullien and outlines a notion of “belated reading.”

A brief prologue, in which I set out a few goals for the blog.