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West, Adrian Nathan: - Adrian Nathan West is a novelist, an essayist, and a translator based in Spain. His work has appeared in many publications, including The New York Review of Books , The Times Literary Supplement , The London Review of Books, McSweeney's , and more. He is the author of The Aesthetics of Degradation and a contributing editor at the translation journal Asymptote .