Brick 105 Summer 2020

Jenny Erpenbeck returns to her East Berlin childhood (trans. Kurt Beals)
Michael Ondaatje and Edwidge Danticat
celebrate Toni Morrison
Anne Carson’s letter from prison
Lina Meruane assumes a new identity in Palestine (trans. Andrea Rosenberg)
Jan Zwicky on Jane Jacobs and the problem with humankind
kid teo reckons with Cambodia’s War Remnant Museum
Eleanor Wachtel interviews Masha Gessen
John McIntyre remembers Bo Huston and the writing of
the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Madeleine Thien and Yoko Tawada talk translation
Howard Norman on his final visit with artist Jake Berthot
Rob Winger accidentally makes it new
Juan Gabriel Vásquez considers a life spent in story
Erin Wunker on the utility of boredom
A photo essay and conversation with Teju Cole
and Joe Penney
Poetry by Brandi Bird, Louise Erdrich,
Yam Gong (trans. Dorothy Tse & James Shea), and Dean Rader
Plus artwork by Serge Najjar, Lauren Tamaki, Jacques Oulé, Joe Penney, Ken Babstock, Michael Winter, Jill Krementz, and Cy Twombly