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Review: Translator Kate Briggs' essayistic novel 'The Long Form'

Kate Briggs' last book, 'This Little Art,' memorialized the art of translation. Her first novel, 'The Long Form,' is a paean to maternal and literary love.

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Death in the Age of Facebook

—You have never known a Woman’s body!
—I have known the body of my mother, sick and then dying.
Roland Barthes,
Mourning Diary
I learned the news of my mother’s death on Facebook. I had left her the day before, tiny swimmer in an Olympic-sized hospice bed. Her parched mouth was open, but her breathing was wet. When I kissed her forehead, she smelled salty, sweet—a sticky, human smell.
I read the news of her death sitting in Pearson airport, stress eating a hamburger. I was heading back to stupid London, where I had a stupid job interview I was not prepared for. When I had kissed my mother in her hospice bed, she was still alive and full of desire. She wanted to swim. I, too, needed her to be alive. I’d asked everyone not to disclose anything mother related until my interview was done, worried I wouldn’t board the plane. And then, instantly, she was gone because my uncle posted it on Facebook.

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