From the Mouth of the Whale
Sj贸n鈥檚 From the Mouth of the Whale has been well received by readers and critics. Junot D铆az has called the book 鈥渁chingly brilliant 鈥 an epic made mad, made extraordinary.鈥 A.S. Byatt gave it a hearty endorsement in The Guardian. Such praise for the book is well deserved. The book鈥檚 prose is lovely and its ...
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Latest Review: "From the Mouth of the Whale" by Sj贸n
The latest review to our Reviews Section is a piece by Brian Libgober on Sj贸n’s From the Mouth of the Whale, which Victoria Cribb translated from the Icelandic and is available from Telegram Books. Sj贸n was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He won the Nordic Council鈥檚 Literature Prize (the equivalent of the Man Booker ...
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The Roving Shadows
In 2002, Les Ombres Errantes won the Prix Goncourt鈥攑ossibly the most prestigious award a French literary work can receive鈥攄espite the fact that it is not a novel. Before considering The Roving Shadows in its own right, it is worth pausing to reflect on the significance of that and its subsequent publication in English. ...
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Latest Review: "The Roving Shadows" by Pascal Quignard
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is a piece by Brian Libgober on Pascal Quignard’s The Roving Shadows, which is coming out this month from Seagull Books in Chris Turner’s translation from the French. Brian Ligboer is a new reviewer for us. (Jeff Waxman made the introduction.) In his own words, he ...
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