Akos Szilvasi
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Evelyn Toynton

Evelyn Toynton’s most recent book was Jackson Pollock, published by Yale University Press in 2012. Her novel Modern Art was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was translated into Russian; Other Press published her second novel, The Oriental Wife, which has been optioned for a film and published in a Greek translation. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in Harper’s, The Atlantic, American ScholarLondon Review of BooksTimes Literary SupplementSalmagundi, and Prospect, among others, and have been reprinted in several anthologies, including RereadingsMentors, Muses & Monsters; and Table Talk from the Threepenny Review.

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