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Lucy Popescu
Lucy Popescu is a writer and editor. She has written for the Guardian, The Financial Times, TLS and New Humanist and has a monthly column in Literary Review. She is chair of the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award.

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On Daša Drndić

Book Review

January 2019

Lucy Popescu

Book Review

January 2019

‘without memory, the present becomes sick, mutilated, a torso with amputated organs.’ — EEG by Daša Drndić, translated by Celia Hawkesworth   Those who knew...

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fiction

January 2016

The Bees

Wioletta Greg

TR. Eliza Marciniak

fiction

January 2016

On Sunday right after lunch, my father began preparing muskrat skins and cut his finger on a dirty penknife....

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...

feature

October 2013

A World of Sharp Edges: A Week Among Poets in the Western Cape

André Naffis-Sahely

feature

October 2013

In Antal Szerb’s The Incurable, the eccentric millionaire Peter Rarely steps into the dining car of a train steaming...

 

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