Literary manga !
I still don't really get the whole comics/manga/cartoon thing -- sure, some fun stuff, but overall just too basic; see the (limited) selection under review at the complete review -- but I must...
View ArticleWriting in ... Urdu
In the Express Tribune they worry about a Literary decline: Reading culture hit by technology, say writers, arguing: But much more needs to be done to protect the quality and nature of Urdu...
View ArticleJoël Dicker profile
Joël Dicker's The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair has been widely translated and very successful and is now finally also going to be appearing in English, and in The Telegraph Gaby Wood...
View ArticleFebruary online issues
Among the February issues of online periodicals now available is Words without Borders' International Graphic Novels: Volume VIII-issue (because VII apparently weren't enough ...) and the new...
View ArticleFree Falling, As If in a Dream review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leif GW Persson's Free Falling, As If in a Dream, the final volume in his trilogy about the Olof Palme murder, due out shortly in...
View ArticleFrench-American revivals
At Les inRocks Clémentine Goldszal takes a brief look at the interesting phenomenon of Les trésors oubliés de la littérature américaine, as French publishers are going back to the older...
View ArticleQ & A: Philip Roth
At her The Book Haven weblog Cynthia Haven has a nice e-mail interview with Philip Roth -- with a focus on The Ghost Writer (twenty-five years on). Nice to find observations such as:...
View ArticleQ & A: Pankaj Mishra
Guernica has Kamila Shamsie in conversation with Pankaj Mishra, and it's a pretty interesting little Q & A, discussing how Sandalwood Death-author Mo Yan's Nobel win was handled by literary...
View ArticleWriting in ... Russia
At PEN America Glas New Russian Writing-editor Natasha Perova explains (or puzzles over ...) What is the Literary Scene in Russia Like Today ? (see also the Glas titles under review at the...
View ArticleJourney to Karabakh review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Aka Morchiladze's Journey to Karabakh, another in Dalkey Archive Press' recently released Georgian Literature Series. I...
View ArticleNew The Manila Review
Issue 4 of The Manila Review is now available. (With Indonesia as guest of honour at the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair (see my recent mention) one hopes there will be a bit more interest...
View ArticleClearer censorship ?
At Sampsonia Way Cuban author Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo writes On the Need for Censorship, noting that the very absence of any guidelines in Cuba already has a pernicious effect: There aren't...
View ArticleLibrary of America 2013 bestsellers
At their Reader's Almanac weblog the Library of America has a post on The Library of America's Best-Selling Titles (2014 update), the always interesting overview of volumes (out of over 240)...
View ArticleRuneberg-palkinto
The Finnish Runeberg Prize, worth € 10,000 was awarded yesterday -- Finnish national poet Runeberg's birthday -- to Terminaali by Hannu Raittila (presumably some Runebergintorttu was also...
View ArticleThe Ax review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Donald E. Westlake's 1997 novel The Ax. Is this really out of print ? Seems even more appropriate in the current economic...
View ArticlePreis der Leipziger Buchmesse finalists
They've announced the fifteen finalists -- five in each of the three categories -- for the Leipzing Book Fair Prize, selected from 410 titles. At her love german books weblog Katy...
View ArticleShishkin on Sochi
The Winter Olympics start (officially) today and, as someone who takes most anything snow-related very seriously, I follow some of the competitions closely (yes, my Twitter feed includes the...
View ArticleM-Net Literary Awards
It's very, very disappointing to hear that, as Carolyn reports at the Books Live weblog, M-Net Literary Awards Suspended Indefinitely. With English-language awards dominating the African...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Egypt
In Al-Ahram Weekly Noha Moustafa finds: 'The economic slowdown over the past three years has brought major changes to the publishing industry', in Publishing in hard times. I'm surprised...
View ArticleLiterary Cairo
At The Daily Beast Henry Krempels has a Q & A with the novelist about Literary City: Ahdaf Soueif's Cairo. Meanwhile, at Qantara.de Amira El Ahl offers an overview of this year's...
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