Science fiction (not) in ... Nigeria
In The Sun Elechi Amadi looks Between science fiction and mainstream literature. I'm not sure this elder literary statesman is the ideal person to opine on the matter -- after all, he...
View ArticleEleanor Catton Q & A
Liam O'Brien has a Q & A in The Independent with The Rehearsal-author Eleanor Catton, now Man Booker-longlisted for her The Luminaries (not yet out in the US), Among the interesting...
View ArticlePrix Goncourt long, longlist
The most prestigious French literary prize is the prix Goncourt, and they've just announced the "1° sélection pour le prix Goncourt 2013". Yes, the French being the French they...
View ArticleCocaine review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pitigrilli's 1921 novel, Cocaine, which New Vessel Press is re-issuing this month. Great stuff -- ideal light...
View ArticleGaelic literature
In Scotland on Sunday Emma Cowing reports that Novel to be published in English & Gaelic same day, as Angus Peter Campbell's The Girl on the Ferryboat will be published simultaneously with...
View ArticleIndonesian literature
They recently announced that Indonesia will be the 'Guest of Honour'-country of the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015 -- welcome exposure for an under-exposed literary culture. Among the leading...
View ArticleAt Least We Can Apologize review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Lee Ki-ho's At Least We Can Apologize, another volume from the first batch of ten in Dalkey Archive Press' Library of Korean...
View ArticleNew The Manila Review
The third issue of The Manila Review -- "an online publication that aims to map the ideas that shape public discussion in the Philippines" -- is now available online. A variety of pieces...
View Article'Bookermania'
Bookermania today presumably largely involves the inevitable fuss surrounding the announcement of the shortlist of this year's Man Booker Prize -- but in efforts to promote additional...
View ArticleNew Simenon translations
In The Bookseller Stacey Bartlett reports that Penguin to publish 75 Maigret novels -- that's the whole series, and that's pretty exciting news. But Bartlett misses the most exciting aspect:...
View ArticleTranslating the classics ... again
In the Wall Street Journal Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg considers How Many Times Can a Tale Be Told ? wondering: "What possesses a publisher to produce a new version of a classic ?" as he looks at...
View ArticlePremio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances
They've announced that Yves Bonnefoy will get this year's Premio FIL de Literatura en Lenguas Romances (FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages) -- and the $150,000 in prize money that comes...
View ArticleThe Spectre of Alexander Wolf review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gaito Gazdanov's The Spectre of Alexander Wolf, out in a new translation from Pushkin Press (and it seems to me almost the...
View ArticleC.H.Beck profile
At DeutscheWelle Krisha Kops profiles C.H. Beck: Germany's literary rock for a quarter millennium. Yes, lasting 250 years in this business, as German publisher C.H.Beck has, is a pretty...
View ArticleGonçalo M. Tavares Q & A
In Bomb Pedro Sena Nunes has a Q & A with Gonçalo M. Tavares. Several books by Tavares are under review at the complete review -- see, for example, Joseph Walser's Machine or The...
View ArticleMan Booker shortlist
They've announced the Man Booker shortlist, and while none of the books are under review at the complete review at this time I do hope to get to, for example, The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton...
View ArticleMore French literary prize longlists
They've announced a couple more of the French longlists, notably the Renaudot (twelve novels and seven works of non-fiction in the two categories; see, for example, coverage at L'Express --...
View ArticleGerman Book Prize shortlist
They've announced that Six novels chosen as finalists for the German Book Prize. I haven't read any of these, but Clemens Meyer's Im Stein arrived, well-timed, in the mail two days ago and I'm...
View ArticleFrench book/behemoth of the year ?
When the dust settles (and the foreign rights sales have been completed), I suspect it'll be Pierre Lemaitre's Au revoir là-haut that emerges as the memorable 2013 French title (see the Albin...
View ArticleBefore I Croak review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Anna Babiashkina's Before I Croak, her Russian Debut Prize-winning novel that's now available in English from Glas.
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