Author: Alissa Valles

Brick, a literary journal

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Peter Sacks’s Quickenings

On the island of Lesbos, not far from the narrow rocky beach at Skala Sykamnias where hundreds of thousands of refugees have arrived in rubber dinghies over the past three or four years and continue to land in smaller numbers, . . .

The Review: A Memoir of the Warsaw Uprising by Miron Białoszewski, Translated by Madeline G. Levine

Reading Polish poet Miron Białoszewski’s account of the Warsaw Uprising—the long two months in 1944 when Hitler’s forces, retreating, executed their orders to leave nothing of the city standing—feels as though you are sitting in a building that is being . . .