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Bleeding in the Dishes

Joanna Biggs: Solvej Balle’s Time Loop, 19 March 2026

On the Calculation of Volume: Book I 
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 179 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 0 571 38337 5
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On the Calculation of Volume: Book II 
by Solvej Balle, translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
Faber, 204 pp., £12.99, April 2025, 978 0 571 38340 5
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On the Calculation of Volume: Book III 
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 194 pp., £12.99, November 2025, 978 0 571 38342 9
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On the Calculation of Volume: Book IV 
by Solvej Balle, translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell.
Faber, 198 pp., £12.99, April, 978 0 571 39703 7
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... Tara Selter would enjoy hanging out with a boomer like her. But just as her English translator, Barbara J. Haveland, came out of retirement to translate the first two books then handed over the next two to a younger duo, Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell, so Tara has a generation-spanning quality. Balle has said ...

Bottoms Again

Jerry Fodor, 19 June 1997

The Woman and the Ape 
by Peter Høeg, translated by Barbara Haveland.
Harvill, 229 pp., £15.99, January 1997, 1 86046 254 5
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Great Apes 
by Will Self.
Bloomsbury, 404 pp., £14.99, May 1997, 0 7475 2987 6
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... Archimedes thought that he could move the world if only he could get outside of it, and the same idea inspires writers in the transcendental genre of fiction. Find some place sufficiently far out and put your fulcrum there. The leverage you achieve will lend authority to your voice. Both these books hope that higher primates will supply the required pivot ...

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