The January/February issue of World Literature Today, with a focus on 2012 Neustadt Prize Laureate Rohinton Mistry, is now available, with much of the material freely accessible online.
Particularly welcome: the entire review section is freely available -- hurrah.
Among the many titles of interest: a review of Amélie Nothomb's latest, Barbe Bleue -- which finds:
Particularly welcome: the entire review section is freely available -- hurrah.
Among the many titles of interest: a review of Amélie Nothomb's latest, Barbe Bleue -- which finds:
As always, Nothomb's learning is ostentatious yet winsome and edifying at the same time; her dialogue is quaintly old-fashioned in an irresistibly flamboyant way that suits her often monstrously aristocratic characters.