Latest Review: "The Elephant Keepers' Children" by Peter Hoeg
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Hilary Wermers on Peter Hoeg’s The Elephant Keepers’ Children, which is translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken. The Elephant Keepers’ Children will be released from Other Press on October 23, 2012. Hilary Wermers is a senior at the University of ...
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Spring 2012 issue of The Literary Review
WHAT: Live readings from the Spring 2012 issue of The Literary Review, “Encyclopedia Britannica” WHO: Cindy Cruz, Geoffrey Nutter, Tanya Paperny, Martha Witt WHERE: Unnameable Books at 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn, NY (near the B, Q, 2, 3, and C trains) WHY: Because you love literature and you enjoy free ...
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Maidenhair
“Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair is the type of novel that professors of Russian literature can hold up as a shining example in their classrooms that no, Russian literature is not dead (nor has it ever been), while those who might not know their Pushkin from their Shishkin can read and enjoy Maidenhair as a standalone ...
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Latest Review: "Maidenhair" by Mikhail Shishkin
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Will Evans on Mikhail Shishkin’s Maidenhair, which is translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. Maidenhair will be available to purchase from our very own Open Letter Books on October 23, 2012. Here’s part of Will’s review: Contemporary ...
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Latest Review: "Daughter of Silence" by Manuela Fingueret
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Pierce Alquist on Manuela Fingueret’s Daughter of Silence, which is translated from the Spanish by Darrell B. Lockhart and is available from Texas Tech University Press. This is Pierce’s first review for threepercent. Pierce is a student at the University ...
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Latest Review: "Confusion" by Stefan Zweig
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Rachel Crawford-Fisher on Stefan Zweig’s Confusion, which is translated from the German by Anthea Bell and is available from New York Review Books. Rachel is a student at the University of Rochester majoring in English Literature, minoring in Philosophy and ...
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Confusion
There is inarguably no better hook, line, and sinker for a reader to pick up a novella than one that is written by an author who had lived and died as Stefan Zweig: living in exile like the unrivaled Nabokov, banned by the government (or, in Zweig’s case, Nazi Germany), and who had fulfilled his authorship with a ...
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