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Idra Novey

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Idra Novey

Idra Novey is the author of the novel Ways to Disappear, a New York Times Editors' Choice. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into eight languages and she's written for The Paris Review, the New York Times, and NPR's All Things Considered. Her most recent translation is Clarice Lispector's novel The Passion According to G.H.

Articles by Idra Novey

From “Um País”

By Flávia Rocha

How to explain / the heat a language exhales

Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey

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From “Clarice: The Visitor”

Have been syntaxed and stirred into a purple.

Translated from English by Flávia Rocha

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from “The History of the Bones”

By Alberto Martins

Alberto Martins’s History of the Bones opens with the narrator receiving a phone call from the provincial seaside cemetery where his father is buried. In a brief conversation, he learns that that…

Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey

Intrusive Reader in the Night

By Milton Hatoum

When I write, I never think of the reader. But last week, late at night, I was reading a story by Jorge Luis Borges at a table in a bar when a man of my age came over to me with an air of hostility:“I…

Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey

Quasi Sonnet

By Paulo Henriques Britto

There is nothing that leads to nothing.Even to sit in a room, quiet and nudeas Blaise Pascal, will have some effecton Tanzania maybe, or on New Guinea,just as the beating wings of a lepidopter—according…

Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey

Rimbaud in America

By Alberto Martins

Fever in the kneesgold in the bellyand—almost forgot—the varicose veins:so you arrivedrenched to the boneby the salt of Abyssinia.Deep inside, a desireto be ever departingas if poetry were—horror…

Translated from Portuguese by Idra Novey