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Ellen Hinsey

Ellen Hinsey is the author of nine books of poetry, essays, dialogue, and literary translation. Her most recent volume of poetry, The Illegal Age, explores the rise of authoritarianism. Hinsey’s first-hand essays on dangers to democracy are collected in Mastering the Past: Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and the Rise of Illiberalism. Hinsey’s other books include Update on the Descent, The White Fire of Time, and Cities of Memory. Her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review and Poetry.

The Invisible Fugue

At a time darkened by war, Ellen Hinsey’s The Invisible Fugue returns to questions of our endurance and what it means to be human. Like Czeslaw Milosz’s Treatise

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