Review of The Expedition to the Baobab Tree from TLS
A Name for Everything ELIZABETH LOWRY Wilma Stockenström THE EXPEDITION TO THE BAOBAB TREE Translated by J. M. Coetzee 220pp. Archipelago. Paperback, £12.99 (US $18). 978 1 935744 92 4 Published: 22 April 2015 The South African poet Wilma Stockenström published this powerful, brief narrative about slavery in
Sinan Antoon interviewed in The Irish Times
Brought to Book: Sinan Antoon on his literary life Literature touches the lives of fellow humans in a very visceral way Sinan Antoon is author of The Corpse Washer (Yale University Press), translated from Arabic by the author and recently longlisted for the Independent Foreign
Josep Pla in the Sunday Book Review
Alan Riding considers the life and work of Josep Pla: "
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding featured in the Kenyon Review
Scott Esposito of the Kenyon Review calls Mircea Cărtărescu’s Blinding "truly audacious" and, at times, "disgusting". Read the full review here.
Dr. Craig E. Stephenson on THE SALT SMUGGLERS by Gérard de Nerval
The French Romantic poet Gérard de Nerval explored the irrational with lucidity and exquisite craft. At the time of his death, he was dismissed as a friend of many writers but not a writer himself, as an emotional and financial
Don Bartlett among winners of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2014 awards
Congratulations to Archipelago Books translator, Don Bartlett, whose name was announced last week as one of the recipients of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2014 awards. Don Bartlett is the translator extraordinaire of the infamous My Struggle series The Arts
My Struggle Book Three Receives Starred Review in Publishers Weekly
The third installment in Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle series, translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, has received a starred review in Publishers Weekly: The ever-present threat of Karl Ove’s father provides an engrossing source of tension, however, and Knausgaard skillfully
Archipelago Profiled in Publishers Perspectives
Alex Estes profiled Archipelago Books for our 10th Anniversary in Publisher's Perspectives: Ten years in and it doesn’t look like Archipelago is slowing down. This past year Random House became their distributor, which will hopefully get them closer to what Schoolman
Tom Christensen nominated for the Northern California Book Awards
Congratulations to Tom Christen, translator of José Ángel Valente's Landscape with Yellow Birds from the Spanish, for his nomination for a Northern California Book Award. The 33rd Annual Northern California Book Awards will be held Sunday, April 27, 2014, at Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main