![]() ![]() ![]() Hers is a unique voice, full of light and gravitas at once, a truly revolutionary spirit. I don’t think too many people have heard of Leonora Carrington’s “The Hearing Trumpet.” It’s an extraordinary surrealist tale - hilarious and terrifying - and one that everyone should read. What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? You really want to know? Currently: Mariana Leky’s “What You Can See From Here” Sybille Bedford’s “A Legacy” Sarah Bakewell’s “At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails” Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder” “Things Mushrooms Are Better at Than You Are,” by Marta Wrzosek and Karolina Głowacka Monika Ptak’s “Ayurveda” Roberto Calasso’s “Literature and the Gods” Caspar Henderson’s “A New Map of Wonders” Monika Libicka’s “Gela: Or, A Gem from the Ringelblum Archive” Yaniv Iczkovits’s “The Slaughterman’s Daughter.” Suddenly the same text takes on new dimensions, as if it were growing in new directions.” ![]() “It’s fascinating to read poetry in its original form,” says the Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk, whose latest novel in English is “The Books of Jacob,” “but it’s just as fascinating to read it in a variety of translations. ![]()
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