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Ryan Ruby

Ryan Ruby is the author of The Zero and the One: A Novel (2017) and a book-length poem, Context Collapse. His fiction and criticism have appeared in Conjunctions, Dissent, n+1, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. In 2019, he was the recipient of the Albert Einstein Fellowship from the Einstein Forum in Potsdam and was an Affiliated Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin, where he lives. (August 2020)

Balthus’s Brilliant Brother

Seventy years after it was written, Pierre Klossowski’s first novel, The Suspended Vocation, has finally found its way into English, providing the occasion to reassess his subterranean, but nevertheless profound, influence on post-war fiction and philosophy.

August 8, 2020