January/February World Literature Today
The January/February 2012 issue of World Literature Today is now available, with a fair amount of the material freely available online -- including some of the reviews. Worth a look (as is the...
View Article2012 books in: Australia
In The Age Jane Sullivan offers a pretty detailed Australian-focused look at what's on tap in 2012, in Reading the future.
View ArticleOn Buddhadeva Bose
In The Caravan Sumana Roy finds 'New translations introduce English language readers to the prolific Buddhadeva Bose, whose fiction drew deeply on literary Bengal', in Reader's Writer,...
View ArticlePrizes: ACF Translation Prize ceremony
The 2011 ACF Translation Prize will be presented next Monday, 9 January, at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, at 18:30. Damion Searls is getting the prize, for his Elfriede...
View ArticleChambers Biographical Dictionary review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the reference work, Chambers Biographical Dictionary (ninth edition).
View ArticleThe year at the site - 2011 in review
It'll take me a few more weeks to crunch all the numbers and present the annual 'State of the Site'-survey, but here some of the data: - 212 reviews were posted at the site in 2011, with...
View Article2012 books in: the UK
In The Telegraph Melissa Katsoulis looks at The Literary Year 2012 in the UK.
View ArticleJosef Škvorecký (1924-2012)
Czech author -- and longtime Canadian exile (and important publisher) -- Josef Škvorecký has passed away; see, for example, the report at Czech Position. Two of his books are under...
View ArticleJanuary issues
Among January issues of online periodicals now available is that from Open Letters Monthly and the January issue of Words without Borders, Apocalypse.
View Article1961 Nobel gossip !
The Nobel archives remain sealed for fifty years -- but then ! on the first of January (well, the second, this year) ! another year's deliberations are opened up to public scrutiny -- and the...
View ArticleIn Praise of Truth review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Torgny Lindgren's In Praise of Truth.
View ArticleNatasha Wimmer Q and A
At his Conversational Reading Scott Esposito has Nine Questions for Natasha Wimmer on The Third Reich by Roberto Bolaño. See also the complete review review of The Third Reich.
View ArticleNew 91st Meridian
A new -- well, Fall/2011 -- issue of 91st Meridian, the electronic publication of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, is now available online.
View ArticleOpen Door review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Iosi Havilio's Open Door -- another title from And Other Stories.
View ArticleLúcio's Confession review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Mário de Sá-Carneiro's 1913 decadent classic, Lúcio's Confession (in a translation by Margaret Jull Costa, from Dedalus).
View ArticlePublishing in ... India
In Forbes (India) David Davidar considers the question: Will Indian Publishing Continue To Boom ? No discussion of non-English language writing/publishing, which seems kind of an...
View ArticleLiterary estates
In The Independent Gordon Bowker celebrates the release of James Joyce's work into the public domain (again) in Europe -- and thus the: "the dawn of a new age for Joyce scholars, publishers and...
View ArticleWhitbread Costa Book Awards category winners
They announced the Whitbread Costa Book Awards category winners yesterday (though the information was still not yet available at that official site, last I checked); see, for example, the press...
View ArticleTranslating from the ... Icelandic
At Publishing Perspectives Olivia Snaije profiles Victoria Cribb, in The Loneliness of the Icelandic Translator. Among the interesting titbits: "Many authors pay me out of their own...
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