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Joe and Jill went up the hill, and who knows when they’ll come tumbling down. The nation may careen well before they do. Much has already been said about the devastating policies and tenure of Joe Bid...

Dezsö Kosztolányi’s “Kornel Esti: A Novel” New Directions, 2011 Esti is not a classic, Gothic doppelganger, not Jekyll to the narrators Hyde, but more of a magician who can seem to lift a house by playing a magic flute. Kornél Esti: A Novel is Hungarian writer Dezsö Kosztolányi’s last work of fiction. Since its publication in 1936, it’s been hailed as a classic, and a wildly popular one at that, so there’s possibly no better way to showcase its many virtues than to plunge head...