Jim Tucker

Jim Tucker’s translations include some thirty-five essays by George Konrád, in addition to works by numerous other authors. Tucker lives in Budapest.

Winter 2020

Night School; or The Ancient Art of East European Heavy Breathing

By Zsófia Bán

Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest, Hungary. Photo: Daniel Olah / Unsplash Sometime in the mid-1980s, at the first conference of the European Association of American Studies held behind the Iron Curta...
Autumn 2019

Night School: A Reader for Grownups by Zsófia Bán

By Zsófia Bán

Rochester, New York. Open Letter. 2019. 240 pages. Hungarian author Zsófia Bán (b. 1957, Rio de Janeiro) fashioned the curious frame of a “night school” to instruct her readers on a long list of rando...
The Two Fridas, Zsófia Bán

By Zsófia Bán

Sept. 2009 WLT They had us sitting together though we didn’t want to. We even said we didn’t. At that our teacher whisked her cane staff through the air, with an astonishing alacrity given he...