<p>Wislawa Szymborska's poems are admired around the world, and her unsparing vision, tireless wit, and deep sense of humanity are cherished by countless readers. Unknown to most of them, however, Szymborska also worked for several decades as a columnist, reviewing a wide variety of books under the unassuming title "Nonrequired Reading."<br>As readers of her poems would expect, the short prose pieces collected here are anything but ordinary. Reflecting the author's own eclectic tastes and interests, the pretexts for these ruminations range from books on wallpapering, cooking, gardening, and yoga, to more lofty volumes on opera and world literature. Unpretentious yet incisive, these charming pieces are on a par with Szymborska's finest lyrics, tackling the same large and small questions with a wonderful curiosity.<br></p>

Nonrequired Reading: Prose Pieces

Literature & Fiction

Wisława Szymborska

Clare Cavanagh

Essays & Correspondence

Ecco

In Translation: Translators on Their Work and What It Means

Haruki, Murakami

Lawrence Venuti

Peter Cole

Richard Sieburth

David Bellos

Michael Emmerich

Ted Goossen

Jason Grunebaum

Alice Kaplan

Christi A. Merrill

Catherine Porter

Jos Manuel Prieto

Eliot Weinberger

History & Criticism

Columbia University Press

Osip Mandelstam and the Modernist Creation of Tradition

Princeton University Press

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