In Capital Jacob Silverman reports that In Brooklyn, Aleksandar Hemon and Nicole Krauss make the case for internationalist literature -- as:
Like some partisans of translated literature, Hemon and Krauss can speak in utopian terms, as if translated literature could raise us all to an ecstatic state. But they do so convincingly, with a goal of cultural plenitude, of turning American literary culture away from its tendency towards self-isolation.