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Makenna Goodman
Makenna Goodman is the author of The Shame, a novel. Interviews, words, and other work have been featured in Los Angeles Review of Books,  The Paris Review, Electric Literature, Guernica, Lit HubCatapult, The Rumpusthe Adroit JournalCommonplace Podcast, the Harvard Review, and forthcoming in BOMB and New York Review of Books.

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Hypothetically

Fiction

April 2021

Makenna Goodman

Fiction

April 2021

Say you wrote a book about a person in search of meaning. Imagine that it was widely praised and made you lots of money...

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March 2013

Celan Reads Japanese

Yoko Tawada

TR. Susan Bernofsky

feature

March 2013

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

poetry

January 2014

Letters from a Seducer

Hilda Hilst

TR. John Keene

poetry

January 2014

At her death in 2004, Brazilian author Hilda Hilst had received a number of her country’s important literary prizes...

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January 2012

The Common Sense Cosmos

Ned Beauman

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January 2012

Worthwhile philosophy is like building matchstick galleons. When Lewis says that all possible worlds are just as real as...

 

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