The Whispering Muse
The Whispering Muse, one of three books by Icelandic writer Sj贸n just published in North America, is nothing if not inventive. Stories within stories, shifting narration, leaps in time, and characters who transform from men to birds and back again鈥攜ou鈥檝e seen this sort of thing before in Ovid, Bulgakov, Kafka, and ...
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Latest Review: "LoveStar" by Andri Sn忙r Magnason
The latest addition to our Reviews Section is by Larissa Kyzer on LoveStar by Andri Sn忙r Magnason, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb and published by Seven Stories Press. Larissa is a regular contributor to Three Percent, and with this continues her streak of Nordic lit reviews. LoveStar is a book I’ve ...
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LoveStar
When Icelandic author Andri Sn忙r Magnason first published LoveStar, his darkly comic parable of corporate power and media influence run amok, the world was in a very different place. (This was back before both Facebook and Twitter, if you can recall such a time.) He noted as much himself in a recent interview with The ...
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Kirkus's Best Fiction of 2012 List Featuring TWO Open Letter Titles
Now that Cyber Monday is underway, it’s about time for the “Best of Everything!!!” lists to start coming out. (Or, as documented at Largehearted Boy, continue coming out.) Personally, I fricking love these sorts of lists, to find books/albums that I need to check out, and to serve as fodder for my anger . . ...
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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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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: "Children in Reindeer Woods" by Krist铆n 脫marsd贸ttir
The latest review to our Reviews Section is a piece by Aleksandra Fazlipour on Krist铆n 脫marsd贸ttir’s Children in Reindeer Woods, which Lytton Smith translated from the Icelandic and is available from Open Letter. This is the first book of Krist铆n 脫marsd贸ttir’s to be translated into English, and it received ...
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