The Brooklyn Rail

In Conversation

Lydie Salvayre with Yann Nicol, translated by Mireille Vignol

By Yann Nicol and Lydie Salvayre

Yan Nicol (Nicol): La vie Commune, Everyday Life, now translated in English and available in the USA, was first published in France fifteen years ago and is one of your first novels.

War Hammer

By Susan Daitch

On the day one thousand people were killed when a bridge collapsed in Baghdad and Hurricane Katrina caused the word refugee to be invoked when referring to American citizens who lived in its path on the Gulf of Mexico, Elyse became a high elf. ...