(This posts comes to us from Andrew Wessels, who contributes to The Quarterly Conversation, as well as a number of other literary pursuits. His new site The Offending Adam delivers new poetry and book reviews every week and does so ...

A new issue of The Quarterly Conversation covers Gaddis, Müeller, and the Nordic masculinity of Per Petterson, among other topics.

Before we get to the table of contents, everyone check out The Quarterly Conversation’s new blog, The Constant Conversation. There you’ll find that we’ve pulled together into blog format some of our best and longest-standing writers...

My review for The Quarterly Conversation of Gilbert Sorrentino's posthumously published The Abyss of Human Illusion is now available in the new issue, number 19. As usual, lots of other good stuff there too.

Seven of Borges’ LecturesOur latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is Daniel Pritchard’s take on Seven Nights by none other than Jorge Luis Borges. They are, as Dan puts it, “lectures-turned-essays originally given in Buenos A...

How to Write About TranslationIt seems like literary translation has gotten some traction of late in the press, which is a great thing. But at The Quarterly Conversation, codirector Hilary Plum from translation publisher Clockroot B...

Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery Reviewed @ TQCThe latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is Ahmad Saidullah’s critique of Tattoo: A Pepe Carvalho Mystery by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, just published in English by Serpent’s Tail....

New Review @ TQCThe latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is of Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, an author of which Thomas Mann once said “Kleist’s narrative language is something completely unique.” Check it out: Happy ...

I'm happy whenever one of my favorite playwrights, Wallace Shawn, gets some attention.  Andrew Ervin has written an interesting personal essay at The Quarterly Conversation about Shawn and white privilege, his thoughts sparked by Sh...

Wallace Shawn and White PrivilegeAt The Quarterly Conversation, Andrew Ervin ponders a writer’s responsibility to his privileged place in our society. And he does it in light of reading Wallace Shawn’s new play and book of essays: R...

We’re serializing John Domini’s essay “Against the ‘Impossible to Explain’: The Postmodern Novel and Society” in two parts, the first of which has just been published at The Quarterly Conversation. The essay brings in a number of b...

The latest review at The Quarterly Conversation is My Little War by Louis Paul Boon, published by the Dalkey Archive. Here's a bit of what our reviewer Billy Thompson thought of it: Stylistically, My Little War feels more like a jou...

At The Quarterly Conversation we've just published George Fragopoulos's review of Landscape With Dog: And Other Stories by Ersi Sotiropoulos. Landscape is a collection that I myself enjoyed this year, and I was pleased to see it mak...

We've reviewed The Armies by Evelio Rosero, which happened to take home the latest Independent Foreign Fiction award. Here's the review, and a quote: The Armies has picked up a number of honors around the world, most recently The In...

Pim & Francie , one of the strangest books we've reviewed in a while, courtesy of Scott Bryan Wilson. Here's a taste of the review: Adding to the confusion are sequences that seem like they’re from something longer but are taken out...

I really wanted to like Season of Ash by Jorge Volpi, but the reviews are making it hard. In The Quarterly Conversation Paul Doyle acknowledged the book's worthwhile aims and intentions but just couldn't like it as literature. Now i...

The latest issue of The Quarterly Conversation includes a wonderful feature called “Translate This Book!” The editors talked to “some of the top translators into English working today,” to “publishers big and small,” to “agents, jou...

       The very impressive Winter issue of The Quarterly Conversation (soon also to be available in print !) is now available, and there is a lot of good stuff.        Of particular interest is Translate this book !, as: We've t...

An essay I wrote on J.M. Coetzee's autobiofictional memoirs, including his latest book, Summertime, has been posted in the new issue of The Quarterly Conversation. (I'll note here that the title and the section titles in the essay ...

The Quarterly Conversation has commissioned short essays from a panel of luminaries, including Juan Goytisolo and Enrique Vila-Matas, for a feature on untranslated masterworks called “Translate This Book!” Highly recommended....