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
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 THE BOTTOM OF THE JAR in Chimurenga Magazine
REVIEW of THE BOTTOM OF THE JAR Chimurenga Magazine, Cape Town – Chronic Books Supplement August 19, 2013 by Stacy Hardy and Wanjiru Koinange THE BOTTOM OF THE JAR Abdellatif Laâbi (translated by André Naffis-Sahely) Archipelago Books, 2013 Born in Fez in 1942, Abdellatif Laâbi co-founded the
Rave review in New York Times Book Review of Knausgaard’s My Struggle Book Two
Read the full review here. Why would you read a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel about a man writing a six-volume, 3,600-page Norwegian novel? The short answer is that it is breathtakingly good, and so you cannot stop yourself, and would not
Read David Ulin's review of Yannis Ritsos's Diaries of Exile in the LA Times
Its power comes from the way it blends the diaristic with the poetic
James Wood names My Struggle one of his Books of the Year in The New Yorker
In Page Turner, The New Yorker's book blog, James Wood names My Struggle: Book One one of his books of the year: I loved My Struggle
Two Archipelago titles in The Quarterly Conversation's Favorites of the Year
Jeff Bursey names My Struggle Book One and In Red as two of his favorite reads this year in The Quarterly Conversation.
#1: My Struggle, by Karl Ove Knausgaard. This hit me where I write and in what I think of family relations. To the first: the play of ideas mixed with the recitation of events is powerful.
The Flying Creatures … on NPR's All Things Considered
Alan Cheuse reviews Antonio Tabucchi's The Flying Creatures of Fra Angelico on NPR's All Things Considered. Wonderfully thought-provoking and beautiful. Listen here.