I’m letting my two older boys take over again to review a wonderful children’s book that was just reissued by New York Review Children’s Collection: The Glassblower’s Children (Glasbåsarns barn, 1964; tr. from the Swedish by Sheila La Farge, 1973; illustrated by Harald Gripe). I’m also thrilled to get them into the world of translated fiction! But
With the third book hitting reviewers’ pages in the United Kingdom and due here in the United States in late May, I think it’s safe to say that we English readers are well on our way through Karl Ove Knausgaard’s deeply personal, six-volume project, My Struggle. Recently My Struggle: Book Two (Min Kamp 2, 2009; tr.
John Ashbery’s “East February” was first published in the March 24, 2014 issue of The New Yorker and is available here for subscribers. “East February,” by John Ashbery, compelled my interest this dark March morning. After all, when an 87-year-old poet speaks, you want to listen, you want to understand. So here goes. The whole poem
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Tessa Hadley’s “Under the Sign of the Moon” was originally published in the March 24, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Despite the fact that I love Hadley’s work, I usually find that her
Martha Serpas’s “The Best of Us” was first published in the March 3, 2014 issue of The New Yorker and is available here for subscribers. In the poem, “The Best of Us,” by Martha Serpas, a woman looks back thirty years to a different time — a time when she was a “speechless” teenager in a
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