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Tess Lewis

Tess Lewis is a translator and essayist who writes frequently about European literature.

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The Widmer uncertainty principle | November 2012

On Urs Widmer and a trio of his novels.


Digression as progress | March 2010

A review of Poison, Shadow & Farewell by Javier Marías.


An affair to remember | April 2009

A review of Germaine de Staël & Benjamin Constant: A Dual Biography, by Renee Winegarten (Yale University Press).


Evil's supreme logic | May 2008

On Detective Story by Imre Kertész.


Pulled punches | December 2007

On Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J. M. Coetzee.

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