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TMR Supplement #2: “Joytime Killbox” by Brian Wood

After referencing Joytime Killbox on hundreds of TMR episodes, we finally break it down with the author himself! Conversation ...

TMR Season 24: “The Confidence-Man” by Melville & “Mevill” by Rodrigo Fresán

First off, if you're reading this post, I highly recommend you go sign up for the Three Percent Substack. In order to increase ...

Three Percent #195: Lori Feathers on Marguerite Young

This week, Lori Feathers joins Chad to talk about "Involutions of the Seashell," a Substack project dedicated to reading and talking ...

Rose Horowitch and the Obsession with Belief over Empiricism

The Atlantic has been referred to as "the worst magazine in America," and after reading Rose Horwitch's dishonest—and dangerous—piece, "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books," I have to say that Current Affairs went easy on them. It's been a while since there's been a full-on screed ...

TMR Supplement #1: “Dear Dickhead” by Virginie Despentes & Frank Wynne

On the first ever one-off episode of the Two Month Review, Chad breaks down Virginie Despentes's Dear Dickhead for Kaija and Brian, a novel about . . . well, just listen. (It'll be more fun if you don't know what's coming.) This new format really digs into the book in a way that you can't in (to quote ...

Three Percent #194: Mark Haber, “Lesser Ruins”

Today's episode features Mark Haber talking about his brand new novel, Lesser Ruins, his influence, the Bernhard thing, going from bookselling to publishing, and much more. It's a fun conversation that goes deep into the book, but also explains the publishing landscape to some degree—in part because ...

Edith Bruck: Recounting the Holocaust Until She Can’t

Il Pane Perduto by Edith Bruck (La Nave di Teseo, 2021) Review by Jeanne Bonner When Edith Bruck was 12 years old, she was deported to Auschwitz, and was immediately separated from her mother in a brutal scene. In her new memoir, Bruck writes that later, after being yanked away, another prisoner ...

The Visual Success of Women in Translation Month [Translation Database]

Women in Translation Month is EVERYWHERE. Whenever I open Twitter (or X?), my feed is wall-to-wall WIT Month. Tweets with pictures of books to read for WIT Month, links to articles about WIT Month and various sub-genre lists of books to read during WIT Month, general celebratory tweets in praise of ...

Best Translated Book Award 2021

Over the past year, we (mostly me and Patrick Smith) have been discussing ways to tweak the Best Translated Book Awards to continue to serve the international literature community in a way that can supplement the other major translation awards out there. When the pandemic hit and the world went on ...