Rick Moody on LENZ by Georg Büchner
Author Rick Moody kicks off an ongoing series in which Archipelago readers review their favorite titles. Moody calls LENZ "A writer’s cry from psychic hell
Archipelago Receives NEA Art Works Grant!
Grant One of 895 NEA Art Works Grants Funded Nationwide National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Acting Chairman Joan Shigekawa announced today that Archipelago Books is one of 895 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. This grant will
Breytenbach's Farewell to Madiba
Breyten Breytenbach wrote a moving piece on the passing of Nelson Mandela for Harper's, "The Leaving of Madiba": Madiba is leaving us. As he enters the timelessness of exile, he leaves behind him a country that he had helped forge. But
Review of Even Now in AGENDA (Belgium)
Belgian critic Michael Bellon reviewed Hugo Claus's Even Now, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer, for AGENDA: Colmer always opts to render the vitality and the natural power of the language rather than slavishly copying the rhymes, alliterations, and meanings. In the epilogue,
The Independent Reviews Blinding and Names My Struggle & Blinding Books of the Year 2013
Boyd Tonkin reviewed Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated from the Romanian by Sean Cotter, for The Independent: Stitched into the multi-stranded fabric of Blinding is a tender, mesmerically precise account of a humble Bucharest upbringing and its formative effects: "The me of today englobes
Audun Lindholm Interviews Mircea Cărtărescu for The Quarterly Conversation:
Enlightening interview with Mircea Cărtărescu, author of Blinding (trans. by Sean Cotter), by Audun Lindholm in The Quarterly Conversation: To the contrary, I would say that I have not actually exploredBucharest during the past fifteen years; I have invented the city. The Bucharest of Blinding is a