Sabbatical Lit, plus a Ben Lerner poem from a recent NYRB

After Yinnys dropped I chilled with the following: 

Signals Across Vast Expanses, by Elizabeth Alexander, 2026

Herscht 07769, by László Krasznahorkai, 2021

English translation from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet, 2024

The Sense of Style, by Steven Pinker, 2014

Vilhelm’s Room, by Tove Ditlevsen, 1975

English translation from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, 2025

 

Nine Coaches Waiting, by Mary Stewart, 1958

 

Blow-Up, and other stories, by Julio Cortazar, 1956

English translation from Spanish by Paul Blackburn, 1963

Inseparable, by Simone de Beauvoir, 1954

English translation from French by Sandra Smith, 2021

No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai, 1948

English translation from Japanese by Donald Keene, 1958

Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, 1928

And here’s the Ben Lerner poem from a recent New York Review of Books: