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Knut Hamsun's Growth of the Soil

Benjamin Ivry has a very interesting piece in today’s New York Sun on the new translation of Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil: “Growth of the Soil,” one of these later works, tells of a peasant, Isak, and his harelipped wife Inger, who strangles her infant daughter after she is born with her own ...

Another Interesting Writer in the Sun

What is it with the books coverage in the NY Sun? Totally makes the daily Times look like a provincial rag . . . Anyway, Benjamin Ivry has a review of Victor Segalen’s Steles, a collection of prose poems just out from Wesleyan University Press in today’s Sun. I personally don’t know much about Segalen, ...