Orélien update
As expected, this French did he-use-AI-? story I mentioned yesterday has quickly spread across the channel, with lots of UK coverage (though, surprisingly, practically none in the US press so...
View ArticleWriters' Trust Fiction Prize shortlist
The Writers' Trust of Canada has announed the shortlist for this year's Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, "Awarding the best Canadian novel or short story collection of the year",...
View ArticleHoneymoon to Nowhere review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Takagi Akimitsu's Honeymoon to Nowhere -- the fourth of Takagi's novels covered at the site.
View ArticleBooker Prize shortlist
They've announced the six titles to make the shortlist for this year's Booker Prize -- "the world's most significant award for a single work of fiction", apparently. The winner will be...
View ArticleFrench literary to-do
Thélyson Orélien's C'était ça ou mourir -- see the Grasset publicity page -- can rightly be considered the 'literary sensation' of the season in France; the author's first novel, it just was...
View ArticleReading in ... Kazakhstan
Like many countries these days, Kazakhstan is reacting to their recently released PISA results; we'll see how much comes of it but still, good to hear that, as Ayana Birbayeva reports at The...
View ArticlePreserving Sotim Ulughzoda
Sotim Ulughzoda does not appear to be well-known abroad, but he's one of Tajikistan's most renowned authors (and translators) -- they even, sort of, re-named a university after him, the Tajik...
View ArticleAmit Chaudhuri Q & A
At Scroll.in Aishani Misra has a Q & A with the author, in ‘The act of writing is un-citizenly’: Amit Chaudhuri talks about his new novel, ‘Château Rouge’. Among his observations:...
View Article'Mausoleum of Poets'
Sort of impressed, given how things are going, that at Press TV Humaira Ahad encourages readers to: Discover Iran: Tabriz’s iconic ‘Mausoleum of Poets,’ where centuries of Persian literary...
View ArticleTanka
At nippon.com Yoshino Taichirō profiles Kang Han-na: A South Korean Poet Finds Her Voice in Japan’s Tanka. Kang explains: Through the refined expression of tanka, I’ve come to learn...
View ArticleGonçalo M. Tavares Q & A
At El País Tereixa Constenla has a Q & A with the The Neighborhood-author, in Gonçalo M. Tavares, writer: ‘If a country like the U.S. has 40 million poor people, that country isn’t rich’....
View ArticleBookstores in ... Belgium
At The Brussels Times Jon Eldridge has a long and nicely illustrated look at Brussels' 'remarkably varied bookstore scene' in Reading the room: Brussels bookshops turn the page.
View ArticleJonathan Franzen profile
At The Guardian Sophie McBain profiles the author on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Corrections, in Jonathan Franzen: ‘It’s still mysterious to me that I...
View ArticleEsterházy Irodalmi Díj
The Esterházy Literary Award is a relatively new Hungarian literary award, given for a novel or poetry-collection, paying out €10,000 to the winner, and first awarded last year; the Esterházy...
View ArticleThe Defection of A.J. Lewinter review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robert Littell's 1973 debut, The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, re-issued last year by Soho Press (as they have much of his work...
View ArticleUketsu profile
The Mainichi has Narumi Tateda's Kyodo profile of the Strange Pictures-author, in Mystery man Uketsu reflects on Dagger shortlist, early life in Britain. Certainly an impressive success...
View ArticleWriting in ... China
At Foreign Policy Kimberly Lim suggests Chinese Literature Is Undergoing a Vibe Shift ((paywalled, but ...) Among the observations: “This is … the boundary of Chinese literature: you can...
View ArticleUnpacking update
As regular readers know, I moved from the United States to Austria in May. All the stuff I had shipped over -- my books (the bulk of what I had sent over -- 421 boxes worth), as well as other...
View Article(US) National Book Award for Fiction longlist
The (American) National Book Foundation has now also announced the ten-title-strong longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction, selected from 451 submissions. The finalists in this...
View ArticleDayton Literary Peace Prizes
The Dayton Literary Peace Prize Foundation has announced (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) the winners of its 2026 prizes, with The Sunflower Boys by Sam Wachman getting the fiction prize; see...
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