Review of Allegria in the Journal of Italian Translation
We are delighted to share that Marco Sonzogni's review of Giuseppe Ungaretti's Allegria, translated by Geoffrey Brock, was published in the Journal of Italian Translation. From the review, as translated by Geoffrey Brock: The skill of Geoffrey Brock, without a shadow of
Karthika Naïr’s Until the Lions in the New York Review of Books
David Shulman has written a thoughtful and engrossing paean to Karthika Naïr's Until the Lions in the September 24th issue of the New York Review of Books. Shulman's piece situates Naïr’s work in the long and intricate history of the Mahabharata, praising Until the Lions for its nimble play of poetic
Newcomers in the Wall Street Journal
In a book review published by the Wall Street Journal this week, Sam Sacks considers the second installment of Lojze Kovačič's Newcomers translated by Michael Biggins. The review can be found here in full. The following is excerpted from the
The Catalan Paradox, Part III: A Conversation with Peter Bush
The original article was written by Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi in the Los Angeles Review of Books. IN 2010, I moved to Girona in Catalonia. I lived in a run-down apartment, near a gelid river, and spent most of my time
Lojze Kovačič, the Greatest Undiscovered Cosmopolitan Writer of the South Slavs
"Lojze Kovačič, the Greatest Undiscovered Cosmopolitan Writer of the South Slavs" – Miljenko Jergović First published in Croatian in Jutarnji list (Zagreb), February 9, 2019 Translated from Croatian by Michael Biggins (draft 27 Feb 2019) Sometimes, even in a completely illiterate society
Review of My Struggle: Book Six in Harper’s
Check out this extensive review of Karl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle: Book Six in Harper's Magazine!
Review of Pearls on a Branch in Kirkus
Khoury originally published these 30 tales in Arabic in 2014, having collected them as she traveled through Lebanon with a puppet troupe during the country's civil war from 1975 to 1990.The storytellers shared tales from their oral tradition with Khoury.
Review of Private Life in The Times Literary Supplement
Catalan Fiction by ADRIAN NATHAN WEST Josep Maria de Sagarra PRIVATE LIFE Translated by Mary Ann Newman 240pp. Archipelago. Paperback, €16. 978 0 914671 26 8 From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of the Civil War, which smothered what vanguardist tendencies Spain might have had, Continental
Review of Something Will Happen, You’ll See in World Literature Today
Review of Something Will Happen, You’ll See by Christos Ikonomou. Trans. Karen Emmerich. Christos Ikonomou’s award-winning second collection, Something Will Happen, You’ll See, is a thoughtful glimpse into the flawed and sometimes-comic existence of the working-class men and women living at the
Review of Private Life in Publishers Weekly
"At times slow and monotonous, at others funny and ridiculous, de Sagarra paints a meticulous portrait of the dawn of modernity in Catalonia." - Publishers Weekly Read the full review of Private Life, one of our forthcoming titles here!