Etgar Keret in The Guardian
The Guardian provides a brief overview of the stories of Etgar Keret: As an author, film director, playwright, TV scriptwriter, graphic novelist and university lecturer, Etgar Keret has been a ubiquitous figure on Israel’s cultural scene since the publication of his second collection of short stories, Ga’agui ...
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Capek, translated for a blog
Andrew Malcovsky is this week’s Three Percent Hero. He’s translating, and posting online for free, a collection of Karel Capek’s (novelist, co-inventor of the word ‘robot’, and brother to Josef Capek, artist and book cover designer) short stories and occasional pieces: Obviously, this is my ...
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Sven Birkerts on Hamsun
Sven Birkerts writes about Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil and Hunger in the new Bookforum: A young man’s book, an old man’s book; the former an almost unremitting hallucination, the latter like something carved with patience into an obdurate oak. Hunger unfolds its unbroken inwardness in urban Christiana (now ...
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NY Sun on Imre Kertész
Benjamin Lytal reviews Imre Kertész’s Detective Story for the New York Sun: “Detective Story” (1977) is another sort of tale altogether — except that, then again, it isn’t. Set in an unnamed Latin American country, the new novel, which was Mr. Kertész’s third in Hungarian, spins a deeply ...
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Javier Marias in the NYRB
Scott points out an 8-book overview-review of Javier Marias’s novels in the NYRB. Above all Marìas’s novels are concerned with the processes of telling, with what it means to tell and not to tell, with the bonds we establish or dissolve by telling, with the ways telling may either release us from the past or ...
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Politkovskaya's A Russian Diary
Over at Critical Mass, they’re doing a series of blog posts about the NBCC finalists. The first is about Anna Politkovskaya’s A Russian Diary... “A Russian Diary” is a posthumous testimonial to Politkovskaya’s reportorial skills and her despair about what has happening to her country. Drawn ...
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