Synopses & Reviews
Two Lines continues its two decadelong tradition of excellence, hand-picking the best from translations acknowledged masters and world literatures up-and-comers. In an all-new essay, Lydia Davis draws back the curtain on the processes she uses to make some of the globes most acclaimed translations. Mexican author Yuri Herrera, acclaimed as Mexicos greatest novelist” by Francisco Goldman, delivers an action-packed tale of border crossings. Editor for The Believer Daniel Levin Becker shines a light on fascinating new work from the experimental Parisian collective the Oulipo. And irreverent Belgian sensation Jean-Philippe Toussaint lands new essays in the issue, one of which delves into the day he began to write. All these plus new writing from Japan, Romania, Peru, and morea vital space for cultures to merge and writers to flourish, Two Lines belongs in the hands of bibliophiles everywhere, as well as in front of writers and editors in search of a truly global perspective.
Review
Two Lines is one of the most prominent American purveyors of world literature.” Travis Kurowski,
Poets and Writers[E]ndeavors such as Two Lines . . . are on the front lines of expanding our access to literary voices that would otherwise be simply inaccessible to American readers.” Los Angeles Review of Books
An appetite-whetting sampler of authors whose work any serious reader cannot afford to be without.” Oscar Villalon, ZYZZYZVA