The White Review
There's a new issue of The White Review out -- and while the material in the issue itself is only partially available online (cruelly, only a (decent-sized) extract of Enrique Vila-Matas'...
View ArticleWhither the NYRB ?
With the (50th) anniversary being celebrated last year there's been lots of coverage of The New York Review of Books, and it's carrying over into 2014 -- including abroad (see Patrick Bahners'...
View ArticleArnon Grunberg and his translators
Okay, it's in Dutch ... but the dossier at Dutch translation-focused magazine Filter, Arnon Grunberg en zijn vertalers, is pretty impressive. It includes (click on links under table of contents...
View ArticleAnother 2014 preview
The Millions' Most Anticipated: The Great 2014 Book Preview is up -- 9,100 words strong, covering 89 titles, and (so their claim, not mine): "this is the only 2014 book preview you will ever...
View Articleadibas review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Zaza Burchuladze's adibas, another of the batch of Georgian books Dalkey Archive Press has just brought out. And come on,...
View ArticleKnausgaard covers
Via I'm pointed to Jonathan Gibbs' Friday Book Design Blog piece in The Independent on My Struggle... the evolution of a proof cover, looking into the designing of the UK covers for the first...
View ArticleKorean literature abroad roundtable
Yet more discussion of Korean literature abroad, in The Korea Times (hey, I'm not complaining -- I just wish other countries (and their media outlets, even if only the English-language ones)...
View ArticleIPAF longlist
They've announced the 16-title-strong longlist for this year's International Prize for Arabic Fiction, selected from 156 (otherwise unidentified ...) entries from 18 countries. The...
View ArticleComics in translation
At Publishers Weekly Calvin Reid looks at Graphic Novels In Translation From the Nicolas Grivel Agency -- as: While acknowledging the difficulty in selling foreign language graphic novels to...
View ArticleMaurice Collis profile
Author Maurice Collis is profiled by Amaury Lorin in The Myanmar Times, in Blood and Spirit: Reading beyond Orwell for a glimpse of British Burma. I've enjoyed several of his works --...
View Article18th Street Barnes & Noble shuttered
Barnes & Noble has been shutting stores left and right for a while now, including quite a few Manhattan locations, but it's still sad to see the 18th Street flagship store close -- as it...
View ArticleThe True Actor review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jacinto Lucas Pires' The True Actor, the first volume in Dzanc's new translation imprint, Disquiet.
View Article2014 translation preview
I've already pointed to some 2014 publishing previews -- The Millions' 'most anticipated' and a bunch more here -- but PEN Atlas now has a nice (albeit UK-focused) look at Publishers'...
View ArticleBestselling books 2013 in ... the Netherlands
Yes, CPNB have released De honderd bestverkochte boeken van het jaar -- the hundred bestselling books of the year (in the Netherlands) 2013 -- see the pdf CPNB Top 100 2013 for the full list...
View ArticleWriting in ... Iceland
Catching up with some older Icelandic news: they announced the winners of the Icelandic Booksellers' Literature Prizes last month, with The Blue Fox-author Sjón taking the prize for best...
View ArticleNew issue of list
The Winter 2013 issue of list - Books from Korea is now out, with a focus on 'K-moms', a look at Novels with International Appeal (including a new one by Your Republic is Calling You-author Kim...
View ArticleYou Disappear review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Danish author Christian Jungersen's You Disappear, just out in English.
View ArticleEmmerich on Murakami
Asahi Shimbun's ongoing Chasing Haruki Murakami-series offers a steady flow of all sorts of Murakami-related pieces. Among the recent ones of particular interest is Michael Emmerich: Fans...
View ArticleAkutagawa and Naoki awards preview
In a few days the best-known Japanese literary prizes, the Akutagawa and Naoki awards, will be announced, and in The Japan News Masayuki Murata and Shinya Machida preview them, in Literary...
View ArticleLiterary festivals in ... Asia
In the Business Standard they note Kolkata flooded with three literature festivals, but in the South China Morning Post they try to make it easier for readers, pointing to just The best of...
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