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Joshua Barley
Joshua Barley is a student of modern Greek literature at King's College, London. Following a degree in Classics, he lived in Athens for two years and worked as a freelance translator. His translations have appeared in POEM magazine and elsewhere, and he has published a booklet of Greek short stories in translation.

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Greece and the Poetics of Crisis

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February 2015

Joshua Barley

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February 2015

On the Aegean island of Skyros, in the Carnival period immediately preceding Lent, a more ancient ritual takes place. Male inhabitants don an animal-like...

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March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

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March 2013

There are some who claim that ‘good’ literature is actually untranslatable.  Before I could read German, I found this...

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September 2016

Colonel Lágrimas

Carlos Fonseca

TR. Megan McDowell

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September 2016

The colonel must be looked at from up close. We have to approach him, get near enough to be...

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June 2012

Nothing Here Now But The Recordings: Listening to William Burroughs

Charlie Fox

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June 2012

About a month ago I was in Berlin. Every night I had a very strange dream. I was watching...

 

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