Tag: Literature

December 1, 2018

Walking the Toaster: an Excerpt from Illuminations on Market Street

“Benjamin Heim Shepard’s beautifully composed and wonderfully moving White Nights and Ascending Shadows is a fine and telling history of how one city faced—and still faces—the endless effects of AIDS.” ~ Michael Bronski, The Guide, Summer 1998 Today is World AIDS Day—a day...

July 15, 2015

New Book Tuesday (Wednesday Edition): Striking Beauty, Born Translated, and More!

Our weekly list of newly available titles.

July 9, 2015

Thursday Fiction Corner: Henry George and Leo Tolstoy

Read a guest post by Beatrice Collison on the fascinating connection between Leo Tolstoy and Henry George.

April 7, 2015

New Book Tuesday: Virginia Woolf, François Laruelle, German Cinema, and more!

Our weekly listing of new titles.

March 17, 2015

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

In celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, here’s a list of great Dalkey Archive Press titles in their Irish Literature Series!

July 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: An Interview with Andrej Blatnik

Read an interview with Dalkey Archive Press author Andrej Blatnik on his recent short story collection LAW OF DESIRE!

July 10, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Danilo Kiš

Read a conversation between novelist Danilo Kiš and Brendan Lemon.

June 19, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Dream World of Susana Medina

Read an essay on the fiction of Susana Medina by University of Utrecht student Cormac McGee.

June 5, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Review of Contemporary Fiction

Read the Editor’s Note and an excerpt from an interview from the Fall 2013 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction: Autofictions

April 24, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: The Library of Korean Literature Series

Publicity assistant Esther Kim explains why Dalkey Archive’s new Library of Korean Literature series is so important in today’s Thursday Fiction Corner.

April 17, 2014

Thursday Fiction Corner: A Conversation with Carlos Fuentes

Read an interview with Carlos Fuentes from Dalkey Archive Press!

November 1, 2013

Philip Kitcher on beauty and love in Death in Venice

This week our featured book is Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav von Aschenbach by Philip Kitcher. Today, we have an excerpt from “Beauty,” the second chapter of Deaths in Venice, in which Kitcher discusses the philosophical concepts of...