Wyatt Mason | The New York Review of Books

An Epistolary Critic

The correspondence of Guy Davenport is a syllabus for the twentieth century.

The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

by Guy Davenport, with an introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan

Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner

edited by Edward M. Burns

Guy Davenport and James Laughlin: Selected Letters

edited by W.C. Bamberger

I Remember This Detail: 40 Letters from and 4 Essays on Guy Davenport

edited by W.C. Bamberger

A Garden Carried in a Pocket: Letters, 1964–1968

by Guy Davenport and Jonathan Williams, edited by Thomas Meyer

The Guy Davenport Reader

edited and with an afterword by Erik Reece

The Sayings of Jesus: The Logia of Yeshua

translated from the Greek and with commentaries by Guy Davenport and Benjamin Urrutia

A Balthus Notebook

by Guy Davenport

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November 6, 2025 issue

Outdoing Reality

The absurd incursions of the real into the intelligent life of the imagination are central to the Afghan American writer Jamil Jan Kochai’s fiction.

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

by Jamil Jan Kochai

September 22, 2022 issue

Imagining the Real

Laurent Binet’s ‘The Seventh Function of Language’

The Seventh Function of Language

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

La vie professionelle de Laurent B.

by Laurent Binet

HHhH

by Laurent Binet, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

July 19, 2018 issue

Violence and Creativity

An exceptional translator of Pierre Michon’s work has, at last, appeared

Small Lives

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Rimbaud the Son

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

The Eleven

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Jody Gladding and Elizabeth Deshays

Masters and Servants

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French, illustrated, and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason

The Origin of the World

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French and with an introduction by Wyatt Mason, afterword by Roger Shattuck

Winter Mythologies and Abbots

by Pierre Michon, translated from the French by Ann Jefferson

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September 28, 2017 issue

The Big Beat

The Heart

by Maylis de Kerangal, translated from the French by Sam Taylor

April 21, 2016 issue

To Be a Muslim in the West

The Moor’s Account

by Laila Lalami

February 11, 2016 issue

Make This Not True

Tenth of December

by George Saunders

February 6, 2014 issue

Smarter than You Think

Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace

by David Lipsky

July 15, 2010 issue

Groping in the Digital Dark

Over the course of the next year, nearly forty 3-D feature films are slated to appear in theaters. But Michel Gondry’s new, and decidedly 2-D, Thorn in the Heart is the work of director who, for two decades, has been unstintingly innovative on a flat screen.

May 6, 2010