Watch Anne Carson read from Nox at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art here.

Watch Anne Carson perform Antigonick at the Louisiana Literature Festival here.

Michael McClure talks about his poem "Mephisto 20" with The New Yorker. Read the interview here.

On The New Yorker's fiction podcast, Francisco Goldman reads "Clara" by Roberto Bolaño. Listen to it here.

Roberto Bolano's Unknown University and Forrest Gander's Eiko & Koma make Publisher's Weekly top 10 poetry picks for 2013. See the rest here.

The New Yorker's Page Turner previews Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell & Notes from Prison. Read their thoughts here.

On January 23, translators Idra Novey and Johnny Lorenz, along with ND Publisher Barbara Epler and host Sal Robinson, read from and discussed the new translations of Clarice Lispector's work. The Center for Fiction recorded the event, and you can watch it here. 

The Huffington Post calls the new edition of Raymond Queneau's Exercises In Style "The Book We're Talking About." Read more here.

An in-depth review in The New Inquiry discusses the new edition of Exercises In Style and the legacy of Raymond Queneau. Read the article here.

Blake Butler compares Carson's forthcoming Red Doc> and Saunders's Tenth of December for Vice. Read the article here.

An article in the University of Rochester's Three Percent weblog discusses the new edition of Exercises In Style and other OuLiPo news. Read more here.

A post on The Believer's Tumblr discusses the new edition of Exercises in Style and includes new exercises "Epistolary," translated by Chris Clarke, and "Instructions," by Jesse Ball. Read here.

The new translation of Sonallah Ibrahim's That Smell & Notes From Prison garners praise from Booklist. Read the review here.

László Krasznahorkai contributes an essay to the Anxiety series on the New York Times Opinionator. Read the full text here.

Garth Risk Hallberg of The Millions includes Clarice Lispector's Near to the Wild Heart, Walser's Microscripts, and László Krasznahorkai's Satantango  in his 2012 Year In Reading. Read more here.

City Lights booksellers celebrated the release of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango on July 28th, 2012. Listen to his reading here. 

City Lights recently helped New Directions welcome the eagerly awaited English translation of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango. Read about — and watch — the event here.

The Boston Globe praises the paperback edition of Robert Walser's Microscripts. Read the review here.

Upon listening to some verses in The Listening Booth at Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang (Birds, Beasts, and Seas, Time of Grief) explores the terrain on which poetry and music converge. Read the fascinating essay here. 

Eleanor Goodman of The Quarterly Conversation looks deep into Xi Chuan's poetry collection, Notes on the Mosquito, and discovers folklore, humor, the ghosts of history, and the future of civilization. Read it here.

George Szirtes, whose recent work includes the translation of László Krasznahorkai's Satantango, illuminates the translator's art in a conversation with Bethany Pope of The Quarterly Conversation. Read it all here.

Mieke Chew of The Quarterly Conversation sits down with author Jenny Erpenbeck for a conversation about the role of history in her novel Visitation, the work of Robert Walser, and much more.

Alli Carlisle, writing for Full Stop, reviews The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, the latest novel from César Aira. Read it here.

Writing in the Financial Times, Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, names Clarie Lispector's The Hour of the Star as one of her favorites of the year, saying that while reading it she "felt physically jotled by genius."  

The January/December issue of Bookforum highlights Clarice Lispector — her novels, her "diamond-hard intelligence," and her "visionary instinct."  Read the cover story, "Lipstick Traces" by Rachel Kushner, here.

László Krasznahorkai's Satantango is named one of the best fiction titles of the year by The Telegraph. Read about it and check out the other selections here.

The Globe and Mail named Anne Carson's Antigonick one of their 2012 must reads, calling it "both riveting an humorous." Read more and check out the other selections here.

Morten Høi Jensen, writing for the Dublin Review of Books, reviews the latest novel from Enrique Vila-Matas, Dublinesque. Check it out here.

Writing of Xi Chuan's first book length collection of poems in English, Notes on the Mosquito, Bookslut states that, "What unites [Chuan's] lyric poems and his essay-poems is that they all carry a sense of the world's plentitude and of the world's puzzlement. The plentitude itself is bewildering and the bewilderment has a certain beauty."

Muriel Spark — alongside five other writers: Angela Carter, Graham Greene, James Kelman, Cormac McCarthy, and Caryl Phillps — has been nominated for The Best of the Best James Tait Black Prize. This  prize will honor the best novel to have been awarded the annual James Tait Black Prize since its inception in 1919. Spark is nominated for her novel The Mandlebaum Gate, which won in 1965. Check out the other nominated novels here.

Watch the legendary, inimitable poet on video over at the City Lights Bookstore's blog. 

"Something magnificent and fantastic occurs," says The Coffin Factory about the experience of reading César Aira. Read their review of his latest, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, here.

In their review of The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, Flying Object concludes that Aira, "is fascinated by possibilities, no matter how fantastic, or banal, or minute. He is rendered vertiginous by the potentiality of the Universie, and his ability to write that down, to cause change, to create an instance, to fill a moment with some sort of happening or occurence. He wonders what is around every corner."

László Krasznahorkai's first novel, the latest to be translated into English, Satantango, recieves a thoughtful review from the Dublin Review of Books. Read it here.

Vice Magazine's Blake Butler looks into the novels and biography of Clarice Lispector — an exploration that proves useful to readers wondering just where to start. Read it all here. 

In an essay entitled "Dr. Aira: In Defense of Short Books," Elvis Bego of Bookslut affirms the greatness of the "small book," citing the works of César Aira as his proof.

David Annand, writing for Telegraph UK, states that, "Helen Dewitt's Lightning Rods finally takes its place alongside her brilliant debut The Last Samurai and her narrative-disassembling online novel Your Name Here to form the basis of an oeuvre that will, one hopes, be recognised in the future as one of the most interesting of its time."

In honor of Banned Books Month, Lawrence Ferlinghetti offers a reading from James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Check it out here.

The San Francisco Chronicle reviews Time of Useful Consciousness and deems Ferlighetti's work worthy company to that of William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Walt Whitman, and Ed Sanders.

Tablet offers an essay on music legend and In Dream Becomes Responsibilties introducer, Lou Reed, and the "greatest man [he] ever met," Delmore Schwartz. Read it all here.

In this personal account, Anderson Tepper, writing for Tin House, reflects on reading Clarie Lispector, stating that, "No book, no voice, vibrated more with me than Clarice Lispector’s Near to the Wild Heart.  I was nearer to the wild heart than ever, and this small, iridescent book was a revelation."

Melville House, on their Moby Lives blog, reflects on why exactly Lawrence Ferlinghetti has refuted a prize from the Hungarian PEN.  

In an interview with Interview Magazine Germany, author César Aira talks Berlin, reading, and the Nobel Prize. Read it (in German) here.

Lightning Rods, by Helen Dewitt, gets a review in The Independent: "[Lightning Rods] is a satire on the jargon of justification, and it is tightly written within its tight limits." Read the full review here.

Award-winning author Rivka Galchen examines the fleeting "whatness" of Tawada's writing, comparing her work to that of Bruno Sculz, Slvina Ocampo, and Franz Kafka. Read the full essay over at The New Yorker.

Publishers Weekly calls The Poems of Octavio Paz one of the best releases of the week and writes that, "Readers will marvel at Paz's variety: haiku-like miniatures; the tempestuous book-length poem 'Sunstone'; fast-moving prose poems; abstract odes; extended descriptions of places in Mexico, India, Afghanistan, and Japan."

Read the first chapter of The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira right now at Bomblog.

The Financial Times offers a short review of Helen Dewitt's novel Lightning Rods, calling it, "A razor-sharp comic masterpiece." Read the rest here. 

Grant Barber, writing for Three Percent, says: "The pleasure of this volume is the consistent, almost gentle voice that lays out for the reader Paz's convictions and questions. 'Gentle' though should not indicate easy of peaceful or unquestioning. Paz raises his anxieties, doubts, and disruptions. Rather it is the artfulness with which he does so that carries the reader along." Read the full review here.

Adam Morris, writing for The Millions, reviews The Miracles Cures of Dr. Aira, the latest novel from César Aira.  

Andrea Scrima says that, "The hope that shines forth in the moments of self-knowledge, transcedence, and grace Walser describes is anything but meager: on the contrary, it is exultation the writer feels when he perceives the sbultime in the tiniest details of everyday life."  Read the complete review here. 

Christopher Young, writing for the New York Daily News, reports on Lawrence Ferlinghetti's adamant refusal of the Janus Pannonius International Poetry Prize, a distinction valued at $64,000.  

The Paris Review reports Lawrence Ferlinghetti's refusal of the Janus Pannonius prize from the Hungarian PEN.  

Shelf Awareness reports on Lawrence Ferlinghetti and some of the reasons behind his refusal to accept  the Hungarian PEN Club Prize.

Citing concerns pertaining to free speech and human rights, Lawrence Ferlinghetti has refused the Janus Pannonius Prize from the Hungarian PEN. The Los Angeles Times has the full story.

César Aira, in conversation with Paloma Reaño, discusses his literary education, irony, and his "Dadaist fairytales."  Check it out over at Ox and Pigeon.

Andrew David King, in an interview with Anne Carson, discusses translation, collaboration, and history. Read it all over at The Kenyon Review.

Jenny Turner of The Guardian offers her review of Helen Dewitt's Lightning Rods, calling it, "a tightly disciplined and extremely funny satire on office politics, sexual politics, American politics, and the art of positive thinking." Read the full review here.

The San Francisco Chronicle explores Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "indelible image" in this article by Julian Guthrie. Read it here.

The Guardian, in their review of Clarice Lisepctor's debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, concludes that, "We now finally have a translation worthy of Clarice Lispector's inimitable style. Go out and buy it."  Read the rest here. 

Sam Gold offers up a short piece entitled "The Strange Spirituality of Clarice Lispector" for The L Magazine.

Lisa Levy of The Rumpus reflects on Delmore Schwartz's collection In Dreams Begin Res