What Would You Trade for Power and Wealth?
Reviewing Helen DeWitt’s ‘The English Understand Wool’ and César Aira’s ‘The Famous Magician’
“Why,” asks writer and translator Gini Alhadeff, “can’t a grown-up have a really good-looking book with a story she or he could read in about an hour and a half from start to finish?”
To ensure they can, Alhadeff started the Storybook imprint at New Directions, described as a “series of slim hardcover fiction books” that “aims to deliver the pleasure on…
