First published in France in 2008, Mathias Enard’s novel Zone caught the attention of Anglophone readers two years later, when Charlotte Mandell’s masterful translation was printed by an Ameri-can ...

Throughout his now-ample body of work, Mathias Enard has portrayed travel – on a ferry in Street of Thieves, on a train in Zone and the still-untranslated L’alcool et la nostalgie – as a goad to ...