Lydia Davis: Willem Maris, A Story

Lydia Davis: Willem Maris, A Story

WILLEM MARIS   Willem Maris, the 19th-century Dutch painter whose two brothers were also painters, spent his whole life painting cows and calves–in meadow settings, with ditches and willows, sometimes…

A.L. Snijders: Container

A.L. Snijders: Container

CONTAINER translated by Lydia Davis On the highway from Rotterdam to Vladivostok, on the train through the Betuwe, on the ships on the Twentekanaal, everywhere, I see the containers that…