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Ahn Jung-geun Shot Abe
In The Korea Herald Ahn Sung-mi reports that Startling novel urges Abe to apologize. 'Abe' would be Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; as to the sort of 'urging' on offer here ... well, the...
View ArticleMoon in a Dead Eye review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of another Pascal Garnier novel (with more to follow -- he's my author-discovery of 2014, so far), Moon in a Dead Eye. If...
View ArticleCharacter appearances
Book-cover designer Peter Mendelsund's What We See When We Read (see the Vintage publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk) has been getting a lot of pre-publication...
View ArticleThree-Card Monte review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the second of Marco Malvaldi's 'Bar Lume Mysteries', Three-Card Monte, now out in English. Alas, another title where...
View ArticleNEA Literary Translation Fellowships
The American National Endowment for the Arts has announced their fiscal year 2015 Literary Translation Fellowships -- US$300,000 shared by 20 translators. The recipients -- and...
View ArticleWriters review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Antoine Volodine's Writers, just out in English from Dalkey Archive Press.
View ArticleGerman Book Prize longlist
They've announced the twenty-title-strong longlist for this year's German Book Prize, the Man Booker-like (right down to the outrageous practice of not revealing the names of the 176 titles...
View ArticleThe Sarashina Diary review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume's The Sarashina Diary, out in a new translation/edition...
View ArticleMoving Words
Moving Words -- what a great idea: Reflecting New Zealand's multi-ethnic and multilingual society, our competition aims to celebrate literature, languages and cultures [...] and to inspire and...
View ArticleSouth Asian translations (not) in the US
At the Asymptote blog Mahmud Rahman continues his survey of the odd situation, On the Dearth of South Asian Translations in the U.S. (Part II), this time getting reactions from translators...
View ArticleA Man: Klaus Klump review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gonçalo M. Tavares' A Man: Klaus Klump -- the first in his 'Kingdom'-tetralogy, but the last to make it into English....
View ArticleDigitizing, at Harvard
At Harvard Magazine they have two articles about digitizing efforts at university-affiliated institutions: Francesca Annicchiarico writes about Tibetan Literature, Digitized, as: "Harvard...
View ArticleIvan Vladislavić profile
Via I'm pointed to Greg Penfold's profile of The most famous unknown, Ivan Vladislavić (author of Double Negative, etc.), in Leadership -- worth a look.
View ArticleKertész to be honored in Hungary
20 August is, of course, Szent István ünnepe in Hungary -- St. Stephen's Day, the big national holiday -- and among the honors the state hands out none is higher than the (revived) Magyar Szent...
View ArticleThe Children Act review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ian McEwan's new novel, The Children Act. It did not make this year's Man Booker longlist-cut (though, with McEwan a...
View ArticleLiterature in(/from) ... Jamaica
I think the Caribbean is probably the single most under-represented area at both the complete review and the Literary Saloon -- with Cuba probably the most-discussed/-reviewed country -- so...
View ArticleLouise Erdrich to get Dayton prize
The Dayton Literary Peace Prizes "is the first and only annual U.S. literary award recognizing the power of the written word to promote peace"; they also award an annual Ambassador Richard C....
View ArticleBlasts from the Internet past
So in posting a review of a new Murakami Haruki book -- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage -- I also went back and cleaned up/updated the links on all the other...
View ArticleColorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Murakami Haruki's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, now also out in English. Lots of reviews out...
View ArticleAfrican Poetry Book Fund
At Sampsonia Way Annie Piotrowski has a Q & A with Kwame Dawes and the African Poetry Book Fund. He says We want to see more African poets in print And, well, who doesn't ?...
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