John Domini
Author and Writer at Freelance
Writer at The Brooklyn Rail
Fiction, essays, reviews. Memoir ARCHEOLOGY OF A GOOD RAGÙ, 2021. Fiction praised by Salman Rushdie, Washington Post: “a new shriek for a new century."
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Aug 26, 2024 |
brooklynrail.org | John Domini
Yoko TawadaPaul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan AngelTranslated from German by Susan Bernofsky(New Directions Publishing, 2024)“Now and then we have to remove the language from the paper it’s written on,” claims our protagonist, “and take it back into our own hands.” What, only now and then? This new fiction from Yoko Tawada never quits picking at its phonemes and morphemes.
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Aug 23, 2024 |
brooklynrail.org | John Domini
Chigozie ObiomaThe Road to the CountryHogarth, 2024Chigozie Obioma long ago quit his Biafran homeland⎯that is, south-central Nigeria, along the Gulf of Guinea⎯but his fiction has never emigrated. All three of his novels trace the spreading toxic seepage of the Niger delta, now largely polluted by Big Oil and others. A dip in a dirty stream triggers the internecine wrangle of his 2015 debut, The Fishermen, fiercely illuminating the greater sickness of their nation.
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Jul 29, 2024 |
brooklynrail.org | John Domini
Dubravka Ugrešić The Culture of LiesTranslated from the Croatian by Celia Hawkesworth(Open Letter Books, 2024)Croatia, on the map, suggests a wrung-out rag. Its largest clump sits up north, crowning the Balkan peninsula, and there you find the capital, Zagreb, but to the east the country gets knotted and squeezed, till it’s no more than a dripping tail along the Adriatic. The shape might be called tormented⎯ and wasn’t the nation born of torment? In the early 1990s, the Yugoslav Wars?
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Jul 1, 2024 |
brooklynrail.org | John Domini
Morgan TaltyFire Exit(Tin House, 2024) “This is silly,” thinks Morgan Talty’s narrator, as he guns his pickup towards the climax of Fire Exit—and the man ought to trust his instincts. He’s heading into what looks like the worst blizzard of a hard Maine winter, a snow and cold that’s saturated the entire ferocious novel, and he hopes to find a young woman with a history of mental disorders.
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Jul 1, 2024 |
brooklynrail.org | John Domini
Yoko TawadaPaul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan AngelTranslated from German by Susan Bernofsky(New Directions Publishing, 2024) “Now and then we have to remove the language from the paper it’s written on,” claims our protagonist, “and take it back into our own hands.” What, only now and then? This new fiction from Yoko Tawada never quits picking at its phonemes and morphemes.
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Today, a miracle of media & lit. 8 years ago in Prague, we met a smart Shanghai HS grad, seeking Kafka sites. We were tourists together & then virtual friends. Today in Funchal, Madeira— she & her Paris bf were at the next table. Now big Murakami fans. Gelato for everyone! https://t.co/B9RyKYTzot
