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Tsunami Kills Tourists, Wakes Up Europenew

Tourist deaths from the tsunami has woken Europe up to banal reality. All these Asian nations have suddenly, in the wake of this absolute disaster, been contextualized.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  01-13-2005  |  Commentary

A Hungarian Master Speaks to the Futurenew

Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz, and his works, stand on the precipice of his generation -- one of the darkest in world history -- and scream into the void of a future that they cannot know.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  12-20-2004  |  Fiction

The Eternal Return of Fictionnew

Canadian-born and Poland-based writer Soren Gauger evidently wants Time to be the sole character and narrator of his first full-length collection of short fiction.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  11-11-2004  |  Fiction

Last Great Poet of Eastern Europe Dies at 93new

Czeslaw Milosz's poetry -- scattered over 20 books, a lifework for which he won the Nobel Prize -- adumbrated the moral and political strife of a Europe in ruin.
New York Press  |  Joshua Cohen  |  08-26-2004  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

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