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Claire Foster

writer & literary translator from French & bookseller
  • writing
  • translations
  • conversations
  • events
  • notebook
  • letters
  • about

 

CRITICISM / ESSAYS / POSTCARDS

  • On Ben Lerner’s Transcription, Toronto Review

  • Phantom Thread: on Lisa Robertson’s Riverwork, Bookforum

  • “He Stops Only When the Foam Starts”: On Jean-Pierre Léaud, again, a postcard from the shore of 2025, In the Mood Magazine

  • Empty Tracks, Cleveland Review of Books 3.2

  • “Precious Vestiges of Something That Took Place”: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • Dispatch: Pack Animal and Midnight Mass present Shampoo Boy by Stevie Manning, Zona Motel

  • As Long As I’m Happy: On Jean Pierre Léaud, a postcard from Marseille,” In the Mood Magazine

  • Dispatch: a poetry reading at Zoème, a bookstore in Marseille, Zona Motel

  • Give Them Space: On Jacqueline Feldman’s Precarious Lease, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • The Lover at 40: A Virtual Roundtable, Public Books

  • A Precarious, Provisional Order: On Daniel Saldaña París’s Planes Flying Over a Monster, Los Angeles Review of Books

  • “From the Solitude of the Waters of the River, From Nowhere”: On Paulina Chiziane’s The Joyful Song of the Partridge, Full Stop Quarterly

  • On Nathalie Granger; or, On the 10th of April, 1972, In the Mood Magazine

  • What I’m Not Reading, Womb House Books Review

  • THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS JUST A READER

  • On Tone: Translating the Vibe of a Room, Arcade

  • On River in an Ocean: Essays on Translation, Literary Review of Canada