Kenan Malik on Rushdie-(not)-in-Jaipur
Eurozine prints Kenan Malik's piece from Pandaemonium, To name the unnameable, in which he takes on the recent Salman Rushdie non-appearance at the Jaipur Literature Festival (see also my most...
View ArticleAll Our Worldly Goods review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Irène Némirovsky's All Our Worldly Goods.
View ArticleBanned books in ... Viet Nam
Kelly Macnamara finds that Banned books hot property in censored Vietnam for AFP, as: Vietnam's pop culture is attracting the attention of print censors who experts say are struggling to accept...
View ArticleIndian literature abroad
In the Economic Times Narayani Ganesh has a Q & A with the head of foreign literature at French publisher Buchet-Chastel, Marc Parent, Indian literature is riding a very powerful economic...
View ArticleProfile: Adonis
In The Guardian Maya Jaggi has an extensive profile of the Syrian poet, Adonis: a life in writing. One impressive fact: mom is still around -- at age 107 ! And quote of interest:...
View ArticleIcelandic Literature Awards
In the Iceland Review they announce that Icelandic Literature Awards Announced -- with Allt með kossi vekur by Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir winning in the fiction category.
View ArticleAfrican writers Q and A
Theleka has a triple-Q&A, with African writers Ben Okri, Taiye Selasi, and Teju Cole, making for An Africa That Talks Back.
View ArticlePeter Carey profile
In The Age Simon Mann profiles Peter Carey, whose new novel, The Chemistry of Tears, is just out -- in Australia. See also the publicity pages from Penguin Books Australia and Faber, or...
View ArticleProfile: Roger Scruton
In The Telegraph Georgia Dehn looks at the World of Roger Scruton, writer and philosopher. I'm not a huge fan -- see, for example, my review of his The Uses of Pessimism -- but I do like...
View ArticleLiterature in ... India
At Tehelka Nisha Susan speculates -- in the wonderfully titled Is That a Fish in Your Indian Ear ? -- "What would India be if we were reading each other more? " Indeed, sadly: At this...
View ArticleE-books in ... the Philippines
"Flipreads is your premiere source of electronic books (e-books) from and about the Philippines and Asia", they say -- though the number of available titles is still pretty limited. But it's a...
View ArticleDeath as a Side Effect review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review Ana María Shua's Death as a Side Effect.
View ArticleReading in ... Indonesia
In the Jakarta Globe Grace Susetyo finds Read a Good Book Lately ? Too Many Indonesians Answer 'No', as: Reading seems less than fashionable among Indonesians, especially when it comes to fine...
View ArticleThe Script Road
The Script Road -- running 29 January through 4 February -- is: "the first ever Literary Festival organized in the Special Administrative Region of Macau". And, promisingly, among the...
View ArticleJonathan Franzen on e-books
Anita Singh -- The Telegraph's 'Showbusiness Editor' -- reports from the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia that Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society. One imagines (or likes...
View ArticleSelf-epublishing bubble ?
In The Guardian Ewan Morrison argues that we are at the start of an epublishing bubble, in The self-epublishing bubble. I think he places way too much emphasis on writers (in the...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Burma
Are things really moving in the right direction in Burma ? Among the many signals that the regime is lightening up: in The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint reports that publishers and writers are...
View ArticleOxford University Press India at 100
Oxford University Press India turns 100 this year, and in Caravan Ramachandra Guha offers 'A personal history of the Oxford University Press India at 100', in Shelf Life.
View ArticleRagnarok review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review A.S.Byatt's Ragnarok: The End of the Gods, her contribution to The Myths.-series.
View ArticleWriting in ... Tunisia
At ahramonline Mary Mourad reports on three writers who: "discuss their novels portraying Tunisia's modern history and ponder the future of literature in the post-Ben Ali era at the Cairo Book...
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