Sebastian SartiinANMLYSolar Bones Explores the Harmonies in Life’s Small, Interlocking PartsMike McCormack’s Solar Bones has a simple, possibly insipid premise — on All Soul’s Day, the spirit of Marcus Conway returns to his home…Oct 11, 2017Oct 11, 2017
Sebastian SartiinANMLYValeria Luiselli’s ‘Tell Me How It Ends’ Shows the Dreams and Nightmares of RefugeesWhen I was ten, the girl next door told my three-year-old niece that they couldn’t play together because we were “aliens.” I didn’t…Apr 24, 2017Apr 24, 2017
Sebastian SartiinANMLY‘Harmless Like You’ Shows the Damage One Does to Become a PersonA woman who abandons her husband and infant son to pursue her art makes for an easy villain. From a distance, it’s hard to see her choice…Mar 1, 2017Mar 1, 2017
Sebastian SartiinANMLYYoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear Pursues the Individual Behind the IconIn Yoko Tawada’s Memoirs of a Polar Bear, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky, she tells of how the polar bear’s snow-white color…Jan 10, 2017Jan 10, 2017
Sebastian SartiinANMLYStumbling Toward Affection: On Magda Szabó’s Iza’s BalladLast year’s release of Magda Szabó’s The Door, retranslated from the Hungarian by Len Rix in 2003, received the energetic praise often…Oct 19, 2016Oct 19, 2016
Sebastian SartiinANMLYA Sprawl Inscribed: On Helen Oyeyemi’s What Is Not Yours Is Not YoursThe stories have fabulist sensibilities that allow for the enchanted to coincide with the everyday, presenting a mystical version of our…Sep 12, 2016Sep 12, 2016
