Pilar Adón’s “Of Beasts and Fowls” [Excerpt]
Released today, Of Beasts and Fowls by Pilar Adón & Katie Whittemore is one of the most bewitching books we've released in a while. It's a book about Coro, an artist who has lost her sister and is "out of sorts," who goes for a drive, gets lost, and ends up at a place called Bethany where she meets a number of women ...
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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 here at Three Percent, ...
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“Melvill” by Rodrigo Fresán & Will Vanderhyden [Excerpt]
From Rodrigo Fresán & Will Vanderhyden's Melvill, which releases on Tuesday, October 8th, and which Publishers Weekly—in a Starred Review, no less—referred to as a "masterpiece." And yes, it is about that Melville: A dying father in the grip of fever and delirium recounts his youth, his Grand Tour, the ...
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Hand-wringing about AI, Part III: “We’re Stuck in the Middle”
Back for Part III? Curious if I can land this plane? (ME TOO.) If you missed the earlier pieces, here's Part I, and here's Part II. To recap: we've seen how AI can thrust us into a world of infinite choice by theoretically translating (or eventually writing) any book out there, which is interesting from the point of view ...
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Hand-wringing about AI, Part II: “Write Me an Ad Campaign”
You might want to read "Part I" before going any further, but if you just want a recap, that post is essentially about how AI could translate the world (and/or create millions of new novels), which, on one hand, could be useful in bringing unique, diverse voices to an English audience, but, on one of the many other hands, ...
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“Pink Slime” by Fernanda Trías & Heather Cleary [NBA 2024]
When the National Book Award for Translated Literature longlist was announced the other week, I realized that I hadn't read any of the books on the list for the first time in . . . ages. So I started this series to educate myself before the winner is announced. You can find all the posts in this series ...
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Hand-wringing about AI, Part I: “I Want to Read it All”
Many many moons ago, in a dark bar on a wintry Rochester night, I sketched out a series of eight posts/topics that would roughly correspond with my plan of reading all of In Search of Lost Time (in the semi-recent Penguin set with each of the seven volumes translated by a different translator), and would investigate ...
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