"Nothing is good save the new… If anything of moment results—so much the better. And so much the more likely will it be that no one will want to see it."


"English literature lives on translation, it is fed by translations, every new exuberance, every new heave is stimulated by translations, every allegedly great age is an age of translations, beginning with Geoffrey Chaucer."


"Writing is difficult and 'strange,' insofar as its vision of reality is unlike our vision of reality. Some writing is so remote from us that it cannot be read at all—it repels us, or, on the contrary, seduces us. We pretend that this writing is the manifestation of a private vision, that it 'sees' a world, a reality, wholly different from our own. Nothing could be further from the truth. We sequester this writing, we call it exotic, or weird, or skewed, because otherwise we would be faced with the intolerable proposition that the reality such writing offers is, indeed, our own, but that we cannot, though we live in the middle of it, recognize it."


"We know that life is good for nothing."

IN THE NEWS . . .

Stanley Crawford interviewed by Deb Olin Unferth at Powells.com . . .

Dennis Washburn wins translation prize for Tsutomu Mizukami's The Temple of the Wild Geese . . .

Dalkey Archive books look nice on your nightstand (also a great review of Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal) . . .

Antonio Lobo Antune's Knowledge of Hell is Book of the Month at Ready Steady Book . . . 

Stanley Crawford interviewed by Sean P. Carroll at Bookslut.com . . .

Early Micheline Aharonian Marcom review at booklit . . .

Interview with Jean-Philippe Toussaint in The Quarterly Conversation . . .

Announcing Dalkey Archive's Fall 2008 titles . . .

According to the Stranger, stocking Stanley Elkin's books is the sign of a good bookstore . . .

Aidan Higgins in the Guardian . . .

Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal at npr.org . . .

Dalkey Archive and non-profit publishing in the Guardian . . .

A starred review in Publishers Weekly for Gert Jonke's Homage to Czerny, due out in October . . .

Critics' praise for Dalkey's Spring 2008 titles . . .

Announcing Dalkey Archive's Fall 2008 titles . . .

According to the Stranger, stocking Stanley Elkin's books is the sign of a good bookstore . . .

Aidan Higgins in the Guardian . . .

Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal at npr.org . . .

Dalkey Archive and non-profit publishing in the Guardian . . .

A starred review in Publishers Weekly for Gert Jonke's Homage to Czerny, due out in October . . .

Critics' praise for Dalkey's Spring 2008 titles . . .

The Chicago Tribune's article on Translating the World . . . (July)

Nicholas Delbanco's The Count of Concord reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and Washington Post . . .

Olivier Rolin's Hotel Crystal in the Los Angeles Times . . . (June)

A starred review of Hotel Crystal in Kirkus . . . (May)

Dumitru Tsepeneag wins major Italian prize . . . (May)

Paul Verhaeghen's Omega Minor wins the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize . . . (May)

Bloggers rave about Amanda Michalopoulou's I'd Like here and here . . . (The Salonica blog entry about I'd Like just kind of disappeared without a trace. You can Google search it and click on what looks like the entry, but the page doesn't lead to that review).

Mati Unt's Diary of a Blood Donor reviewed in the New York Post . . . (May)

António Lobo Antunes's Knowledge of Hell in the Village Voice . . . (March)

Marja-Liisa Vartio's Parson's Widow reviewed in the New York Sun . . . (Feb)

Lydie Salvayre's Power of Flies reviewed in the Nation . . . (Jan)

Reviews of Omega Minor here and here and here  and here and here . . .

Omega Minor in TIME magazine . . . (This page would not load, but I think either our internet or TIME's website is having some technical difficulties this afternoon because not even an error page would load. I'm going to assume the link still works for now.)

Paul Verhaeghen interviewed on Bookslut . . .

Viktor Shklovsky's Energy of Delusion in the Guardian . . . (Nov 07)

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CORDOVA, ALABAMA, the Deep South,

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DOUGLAS, near Glacier Bay National Monument (any natural or
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