Jennifer Croft
Jennifer Croft won the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her memoir Homesick and the 2018 Man Booker International Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is the author of Serpientes y escaleras and Notes on Postcards and holds a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies from Northwestern University. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the New York Review Daily,the Paris Review Daily, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Tin House, BOMB, n+1, Guernica, the Guardian,the Chicago Tribune and elsewhere.
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Art & Photography | Issue 157
Graffiti Mobili
Jennifer Croft
‘The picture of a postcard is a geograft, a scion of a place thrust into the life of a resident of somewhere else.’
Jennifer Croft on graffiti and the history of the postcard.
Fiction | Issue 155
Nobody Knows What They’re Doing
Camila Fabbri
‘In that instant my sisters were two animals about to work some shit out.’
Fiction by Camila Fabbri, translated by Jennifer Croft.
Fiction | The Online Edition
A Perfect Cemetery
Federico Falco
An excerpt from Federico Falco’s story collection A Perfect Cemetery.
Fiction | Issue 146
Borderland
Olga Tokarczuk
New fiction from Olga Tokarczuk, translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft.
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145
Best Book of 1953/1994: Trans-Atlantyk
Jennifer Croft
‘The most Polish novel of the twentieth century was written in Argentina and published in France.’