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After an entire day spent walking to the location of this photograph so as to plan the shot, overnight, a ferocious sandstorm obliterated the dune & drastically altered the landscape. Befuddled, I returned. What you see is the result. Read more
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In my translator’s preface to Saneatsu Mushanokoji’s The Innocent (Omedetaki Hito of 1911), I noted a curious feature of the novella: Mushanokoji seems to anticipate aspects of very modern writers such as Samuel Beckett and Italo Calvino in particular. Mushanokoji’sThe Innocent intriguingly prefigures elements of Beckett’s minimalism and Calvino’s conceptual play, bridging literary traditions in Read more

