WYATT MASON, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper’s, has translated writing by Pierre Michon, Éric Chevillard, Michel de Montaigne, and Arthur Rimbaud. He teaches at Bard College.
ROGER SHATTUCK (1923–2005) was one of America’s preeminent critics, an authority on French letters whose first book, The Banquet Years (1955), on the birth of the avant-garde in France at the turn of the century, has never gone out of print. A frequent writer on French literature for the New York Review of Books, Shattuck won the National Book Award in 1977 for Marcel Proust.