“All of history a rehearsal for its own extinction”: A Review of Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger (Knopf, 2022)

Mark Tardi is a writer and translator whose recent awards include a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Translation fellowship. He is the author of three books, most recently, The Circus of Trust (Dalkey Archive Press, 2017), and his translations of The Squatters’ Gift by Robert Rybicki (Dalkey Archive Press) and Faith in Strangers by Katarzyna Szaulińska (Toad Press/Veliz Books) were published in 2021. Recent writing and translations have appeared in Czas Kultury, Denver Quarterly, The Scores, Full Stop, Poetry Northwest, The Millions, Interim, Circumference, Another Chicago Magazine, Berlin Quarterly, and in the edited volumes, Odmiany Łapania Tchu (Dom Literatury w Łodzi, 2022), New Voices: Contemporary Writers Confront the Holocaust (Vallentine Mitchell, 2023), and The Experiment Will Not Be Bound (Unbound Edition Press, 2023). He is on faculty at the University of Lodz.