Archive for October, 2014

Review, Translation

The Multicoloured Album

The Multicoloured Album

When, at the moment of her last rites, the priest asked my great-grandmother if she was afraid of death, she answered, “Death, Father, I have seen it 17 times.”

Review, Translation

An Ideal Sparseness?

An Ideal Sparseness?

Nature has no secret plan. Nature is not a kind organizer. Nature doesn’t give a shit. She does her thing. Drops us through the hole, then waits.

Translation

Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters

Deslauriers’ work often focuses on adolescence, that fragile, fumbling period when “we are tightrope walkers. Anything can tip us over.”