Two Lines 24

by C.J. Evans (editor)

Two Lines continues its two decade–long tradition of excellence, hand-picking the best from translation’s acknowledged masters and world literature’s up-and-comers. Among the delights in issue 24 we have Swiss modernist C.-F. Ramuz—whose face is seen on Swiss currency—offering an electrifying chapter of his tragic novel, Jean-Luc Persecuted . NYRB Classics editor Jeffrey Yang provides an insightful essay on the persecuted Uighurs of Central Asia. The poem "Lidless Coffins with No Bodies" and an excerpt from Rabee Jaber's powerful novel Confessions tell of harsh realities in the Middle East. And Nobuko Takagi's bizarre, gender-bending tale "Tomosui" is like nothing you've ever read.

192 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2016

About the author

CJ Evans is the author of A Penance, forthcoming from New Issues Press in October, and The Category of Outcast, selected by Terrance Hayes for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets chapbook series. He co-edited, with Brenda Shaughnessy, Satellite Convulsions: Poems from Tin House, and his work has appeared in journals such as Boston Review, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, and Virginia Quarterly Review. He is editor of Two Lines Press, which publishes contemporary international literature in translation, and a contributing editor for Tin House. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, daughter, and three-legged cat.