Like many books recently published by Other Press—particularly Bonnie Nadzam’s Lamb, Stephanie Vaughn’s Sweet Talk, and Cristina Comencini’s When the Night—Therese Bohman’s Drowned is a flawless story written in razor sharp prose, and is extremely hard to put down. The novel’s first person narrator is Marina, a twenty year old art history student who...
In antiquity, painting and writing were thought of as two aspects of the same science. The science was called antigraphy. As its title suggests, this is the theme of Nobel-Prize winner José Saramago’s first novel, Manual of Painting and Calligraphy, now translated into English...
If you know that Andrés Neuman was born in Argentina, that he lives in Spain, where he has been awarded that country’s most prestigious literary prizes, and that Roberto Bolaño said, “the literature of the twenty-first century will belong to Neuman,” then Neuman’s first...
Farther Away is a collection of twenty-two essays (including lectures, reviews, forwards, and speeches), written from 1998 – 2011, presented in regressive order. They show, quite disturbingly, that not...
Whenever I mention to a friend of mine that I’m reading the new Roberto Bolaño book, he always says, “How does someone who died in 2003 keep coming out...
On the cover of Cristina Comencini’s new novel When the Night is a black and white photograph of craggy, snow-dusted mountains. Above the peaks are dark clouds, and...
What is the history of the Tattered Cover? The Tattered Cover opened in 1971 in a tiny space in the Cherry Creek North neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Joyce Meskis...
Among the scant results one will find by googling Tor Ulven is this quote: “I never got to see a proper striptease. Not anything even remotely close. I was...
Sarah Manguso’s slender, swift-moving second memoir is an elegy to her close friend, Harris, who escaped from a psychiatric hospital and jumped under a train in 2008. Early in...
Twentysomethings, listen up! Many of you have been wasting your time. You work dead-end jobs, live with your parents, and bounce between multiple sex partners, all the while comparing...
“Svetislav Basara is a genius.” This might be a common realization while reading The Cyclist Conspiracy, the second novel to be translated into English by Serbia’s literary giant. The...
Harvey Levenstein is professor emeritus of history at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ohio. He has published a number of books on American history, including Revolution at the Table: The...
In the 1970’s, the American Heart Association supported the use of trans fats over saturated fat. Today, trans fat is the fat to avoid. During that same time, the...
You might know the name Jean-Philippe Toussaint because he is the Prix Décembre winning author of The Truth About Marie, but you’ll want to know him because of Reticence,...
“For our baby, a name chosen from a book of names. Each name exhausted one after another, a sequenced failure.” And so each small chapter, each small sequence of...
Jonathan Safran Foer says Etgar Keret’s new collection of short stories, Suddenly, a Knock on the Door, is Keret’s most “Keretesque” book yet. What does this mean? It means...
What is the history of Dog Ears Bookstore? We are a non-profit organization that is funded through book sales, grants, private donations and event revenue, We offer our community...
Picture an isolated, Eastern European town, abandoned save for a few dozen residents, most of who occupy their time drinking pálinka in a bar covered in spider-webs. Picture a...
In the beginning of March, Vladimir Putin was elected President of the Russian Federation, bringing his reign to span nearly two decades. Despite tens of thousands of people who...
“I have nothing to confess,” writes Edouard Levé in his book Autoportrait, which is essentially one long confession. One paragraph a hundred and eighteen pages long, Autoportrait is a...
Anyone who pays attention to contemporary short fiction has most likely seen Kevin Moffett’s stories in The Best American Short Stories 2009/2010, McSweeney’s, American Short Fiction, Tin House, and...
The world once seemed to stretch before us, passive and limitless, awaiting the gift of form. Pristine categories like nature and the libido were resources for minds and hands...
What is the history of Changing Hands Bookstore? Changing Hands began as a dream on the porch steps of an alternative school for kids where Tom Brodersen, Gayle Shanks...
With all the books being released by young, debut authors, it’s difficult to know who to read, and who to skip. Adam Wilson’s novel Flatscreen makes the choice easy;...
Josh Bazell’s storytelling has been compared to the Coen brothers, Quentin Tarantino, and Elmore Leonard. Not a bad lot. And while Bazell’s vision of the universe might look and...
St. Mark’s Bookshop was packed on Monday, February 13, filled with mostly college students and twenty-somethings for Muumuu House’s reading. The independent publishing house, with its appeal to the...
Over the course of a single day in the year of 1923, a Panamanian civil servant, with no interest in poetry and having never written a word of verse...
