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Poetic License

From “Notes on Baudelaire’s Parisian Tableaux,” which was published for the first time in English in the Fall 2024 issue of October. Translated from the French by Michael Krimper. Baudelaire…

The Mirror

by Charles Baudelaire,Translated by Richard Sieburth,

From Late Fragments, which will be published next month by Yale University Press. Translated from the French. A frightful-looking man comes in and looks at himself in the mirror. “Why…

Brussels Spleen

by Charles Baudelaire,Translated by Richard Sieburth,

From an outline for a book Charles Baudelaire planned to write on Belgium, where he lived from 1864 until shortly before his death, in 1867. The outline is published in…

The writer is gravely ill

by Roberto Bolaño,Translated by Chris Andrews,

Baudelaire’s new leaf

by Charles Baudelaire,Translated by Rosemary Lloyd,

Workers in monumental brass

by Jacques Barzun,

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