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Elisa Gabbert
Elisa Gabbert is the author of five collections of poetry, essays, and criticism, most recently The Word Pretty (Black Ocean, 2018) and The Unreality of Memory & Other Essays, out in August from FSG and Atlantic UK.

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Miranda Popkey’s ‘Topics of Conversation’

Book Review

July 2020

Elisa Gabbert

Book Review

July 2020

‘We tell ourselves stories in order to live’ is one of those lines that is quoted so often out of context it has lost...

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Interview

March 2016

Interview with Han Kang

TR. Deborah Smith

Sarah Shin

Interview

March 2016

Han Kang is a disquieting storyteller who leads the reader into the very heart of human experience, where the...

poetry

May 2012

Monopoly (after Ashbery)

Sarah Howe

poetry

May 2012

I keep everything until the moment it’s needed. I am the glint in your bank manager’s eye. I never...

fiction

February 2016

The Reactive

Masande Ntshanga

fiction

February 2016

My back cramps on the toilet bowl. I stretch it. Then I take two more painkillers and look down...

 

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