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
Landscape with Yellow Birds nominated for the Northern California Book Award
Landscape with Yellow Birds has been nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Translation-Poetry as one of the best works by a northern California author published in 2013. Congratulations to Archipelago translator, Tom Christensen!
Kirkus Gives Harlequin's Millions Starred Review
Harlequin's Millions by Bohumil Hrabal, translated from the Czech by Stacey Knecht, just received a starred review on Kirkus Reviews: [A] uniquely compelling blend of parable, fantasy, social realism and testament to the power of storytelling. . . . the voice of
Fuse Book Review: Pierre Michon and his Many Artistic “Lives”
John Taylor just published a piece on Michon's translation in English for The Arts Fuse. On Michon's style: Offering the long view, as would a novel, of life as a concatenation of a great number of events between birth and death would
The Observer names Book 3 as one of its Top 10 Books for Spring!
The Observer puts My Struggle: Book 3 on its Top 10 List for Spring, calling Knausgaard "one of the most vital writers working today."
Great review of My Struggle: Book Three in the latest Spectator
The Spectator review of My Struggle: Book Three underlines the universality behind Knausgaard's latest volume and declares its narration has "an immediacy as astonishing as that of its two predecessors".
The Financial Times review of My Struggle: Book 3
Financial Times reviews My Struggle: Book Three as "one of the most anticipated books of the year (or decade)" and adds "there is no easy explanation".
Review of BLINDING in London Review of Books
Martin Riker has just reviewed Mircea Cărtărescu's Blinding, translated by Sean Cotter, for the London Review of Books, as well as his previous book, Nostalgia (New Directions). Riker compares the two: Blinding can seem like a surprising next step after Nostalgia, whatever stylistic qualities the two books
REVIEW: Quarterly Conversation on A Treatise on Shelling Beans
P.T Smith thoughtfully reviews Wiesław Myśliwski's A Treatise on Shelling Beans in Issue 35 of Quarterly Conversation. A man enters a house and asks to buy some beans, but we aren’t given his question, only the response: humble surprise from the narrator