August 15, 2014

University Press Roundup: Ferguson, Unshark Week, Fighting Inequality and More!

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. We Americans, or...

August 14, 2014

Chris Andrews, Translator, Critic, and Fan of Roberto Bolaño

“It has been a privilege to be involved, as a translator, in the process by which Bolaño’s fiction travelled from Blanes in Catalonia to Hyderabad and the western suburbs of Sydney, to name just two places where I know it...

August 14, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A. G. Porta, Roberto Bolaño's Writing Partner

“Whereas the Porta-Bolaño world is one of violence and sweaty-balled erudition, entering The No World Concerto is like entering an M. C. Escher lithograph.”—Darren Koolman Since our featured this book is Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe by Chris Andrews,...

August 13, 2014

Bolaño, Epiphanies and Imminence — A Post by Chris Andrews

The following post is by Chris Andrews, author of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe. You can also read our interview with Chris Andrews about the book: At the end of “Advice on the Art of Writing Short Stories” (in...

August 13, 2014

Making Sense of Afghanistan’s Electoral Crisis — A Post by Noah Coburn and Anna Larson

“While Kerry again has brokered a deal between feuding candidates, there is no reason to believe that this deal will ultimately hold and it is the candidates who will ultimately determine whether there is a peaceful transition of power or...

August 12, 2014

Interview with Chris Andrews, author of Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

The following is an interview with Chris Andrews, author of Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe Question: How did you discover Bolaño’s work? Chris Andrews: Chatting with booksellers in Santiago and Valparaíso in 2001. Bolaño was already very well known...

August 12, 2014

New Book Tuesday: Death Watch, In Stereotype, the Wrath of Capital, and More New Books

Our weekly list of new books now available: Deathwatch: American Film, Technology, and the End of Life C. Scott Combs In Stereotype: South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary Mrinalini Chakravorty The Wrath of Capital: Neoliberalism and Climate Change Politics...

August 11, 2014

Book Giveaway! Roberto Bolaño's Fiction

“An indispensable guide to navigating the rich world of Bolaño’s fiction.” — Publishers Weekly This week our featured book is Roberto Bolaño’s Fiction: An Expanding Universe, by Chris Andrews In addition to featuring the book and the author on the...

August 8, 2014

University Press Roundup

Welcome to our weekly roundup of the best articles from the blogs of academic publishers! As always, if you particularly enjoy something or think that we missed an important post, please let us know in the comments. First up, over...

August 8, 2014

Househunting in the Homeland — Part 2 of an essay by Wendy Law-Yone, author of "A Daughter's Memoir of Burma"

“It struck me for the first time how stable, how fixed was the life of a dictator…. He was the immovable, centrifugal force that had sent thousands of Burmese citizens spinning out into the troposphere of permanent displacement.”—Wendy Law-Yone The...

August 7, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Tamaz Chiladze, author of "The Brueghel Moon"

“Ultimately, the function of literature is to intensify mystery, not to solve it, isn’t it?”—Tamaz Chiladze The following is an interview with Tamaz Chiladze, author of The Brueghel Moon. The novel is part of Dalkey Archive’s new Georgian Literature Series:...

August 7, 2014

Househunting in the Homeland — An Essay by Wendy Law-Yone, author of "A Daughter's Memoir of Burma"

The following post is part 1 of an essay by Wendy Law-Yone, author of A Daughter’s Memoir of Burma. For more on the book, you can also read our