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Issue 8

Moscow Women

‘She’s young, then suddenly she’s old, and she’s buried without knowing why she ever lived.’

Issue 6

‘But you had to be on the islands to know what it was really all about.’

Issue 6

‘In the early period the Jewish problem wasn't the main thing. What interested us in Austria was work and bread, freedom and an end to servitude.’

Issue 4

‘David R. Godine is a respected, adventurous, outspoken publisher and a soi-disant cultural elitist.’

Issue 2

‘Everything we do in art is likely to turn out to be either prophecy or exorcism, whatever its other intentions.’

Issue 1

‘People belong to literary movements which are abstractions rather than to ways of life which are concrete.’