Latest Review: The Great Weaver from Kashmir
It seems fitting that we run this review of Iceland’s only Nobel Prize winner right after the Le Clezio announcement, and while Bragi Olafsson (our Icelandic author) is on his reading tour. Larissa Kyzer—who reviewed The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo for us last month—wrote this review of the first Halldor ...
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Latest Review: Tranquility by Attila Bartis
Our latest review is of Tranquility by Attila Bartis and was written by Jeff Waxman. (Who’s compiling a nice list of reviews for us.) This is a dumb joke, but when I read the first line of Jeff’s review — “In the world of Hungarian literature, of Kertész and Krúdy, of Konrád and Krasznahorkai, how ...
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Latest Review: Sun, Stone, and Shadows
Our latest review is of Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories edited by Jorge F. Hernandez and published in collaboration with the NEA’s Big Read program. ...
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Latest Review: Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
Shortly after arriving in Rochester with the goal of creating Open Letter, I was flipping through the Ray-Gude Merlin Agency rights list and came across Horacio Castellanos Moya. I immediately e-mailed Nicole Witt only to find out that New Directions had already purchased the rights to Senselessness. As a publisher I was ...
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Latest Review: The Lost Daughter
Our latest review is of Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter. This is the third Ferrante book Europa has published. The first—The Days of Abandonment—is part of this year’s Reading the World program and helped launch Europa Editions a few years back. This review is written by Monica Carter, who works ...
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Latest Review: La Follia Improvvisa di Ignazio Rando
Our latest review is of Dario Franceschini’s La Follia Improvvisa di Ignazio Rando, which is available in Italian from Bompiani, but has yet to be translated into English. As reviewer Lucinda Byatt notes, Franceschini’s first novel, Nelle vene quell’acqua d’argento received several prizes, including the ...
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Latest Review: Knowledge of Hell
Our latest review is the first of two Antonio Lobo Antunes reviews we’ll be posting over the next couple months. (The other being What Can I Do When Everything’s on Fire? forthcoming from W.W. Norton.) I’ve been a fan of Antunes’s for years, and since this review is a bit mixed (it really is a great ...
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