Click here to read the story in its entirety on The New Yorker webpage. Loiuse Erdrich’s “The Big Cat” was originally published in the March 31, 2014 issue of The New Yorker. Louise Erdrich, though I don’t love everything she does, is one of my Pantheon authors. I’m excited to see what we have this week.
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.
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