E-reading study
This has gotten lots of popular press attention -- Why You Shouldn't Read a Tablet Before Bed (Time), Open the Book, Put Down the Tablet at Bedtime (Wall Street Journal), etc. etc. -- as a...
View ArticleVladimir Sharov Q & A
At Russia Beyond the Headlines Alexandra Guzeva has a Q & A with Return to Egypt-author Vladimir Sharov -- Russian Booker Prize winner: A novel is like a child. Good to see him...
View ArticleBest books of 2014 in ... the Netherlands
NRC Handelsblad now offer a list of their 10 beste boeken van 2014. Kees 't Hart's novel Teatro Olimpico (see the Querido publicity page) tops the list, and several US and UK titles make...
View ArticleHet schervengericht review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Een transatlantische tragedie by A.F.Th. van der Heijden, his novel Het schervengericht. As longtime readers know, I've...
View ArticleWLT notable translations, 2014
At the World Literature Today blog they offer their list of 75 Notable Translations of 2014. It looks a bit haphazard to me -- and there's some stuff from last year (e.g. The Rainbow...
View ArticleContra Mundum Christmas ! Prae preview
Among the most anticipated of forthcoming books is Towards the One and Only Metaphor-author Szentkuthy Miklós's debut novel from 1934, finally appearing in English in Tim Wilkinson's...
View ArticleContra Mundum Christmas ! New issue of Hyperion
A new issue of Contra Mundum Press' Hyperion is out -- over 200 pages of literary treats, beginning with Federico Fellini on "Why Satyricon ? Why Petronius ?", an excerpt from the great Hans...
View Article'A Year in Reading' at The Millions
The Millions entertaining A Year in Reading: 2014 series is finally complete, so there the link to check out all 74 entries, an enjoyable variety of recollections and recommendations from a...
View ArticleThe New Yorker writer favorites
At The New Yorker's Page Turner weblog they asked some of their: 'contributors for their favorite books they read this year', in The Best Books of 2014. Top-dog reviewer James Wood of...
View ArticleBestselling in 2014 in ... the UK
At The Guardian they have a piece considering Bestselling books of 2014: did the booksellers get it right ? The did-booksellers-get-it-right angle seems completely uninteresting to me, but the...
View ArticleThe History of Silence review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pedro Zarraluki's 1994 novel, The History of Silence, just out in English from Hispabooks.
View Article2014 translations from the: French
The French keep fairly good track of what gets published in translation, and at French Culture they offer Estimated Translated Titles List for 2014 and 2015: First Look -- an overview, with...
View Article2014 translations from the: Arabic
Always good to see language-specific lists of what's been recently translated into English, and at Arabic Literature (in English) The 40+ Modern Arabic Literary Works Published in English...
View ArticleThe Brueghel Moon review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Tamaz Chiladze's The Brueghel Moon, forthcoming in Dalkey Archive Press' Georgian Literature Series. And yes, Tamaz is...
View ArticleBest and favorite books lists
Gotta admire the best-of-the-year lists that hold out until after Christmas -- though I do have to wonder: if they hold out this long, why not all the way, until the year has actually come to...
View ArticleThe literary year in ... Nigeria
In the The Sun Henry Akubuiro reports on 2014: A year of literary triumphs in Nigeria -- though, yes, these end-of-year summing-ups do lead to observations such as: While some writers passed...
View ArticleAnna Karenina x 2
As I've noted previously, two major new translations of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina came out this year: Rosamund Bartlett's (Oxford University Press; see their publicity page, or get your copy...
View ArticleThe Captain's Daughter review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Alexander Pushkin's classic novel, The Captain's Daughter, in Robert and Elizabeth Chandler's translation, recently re-issued by...
View ArticleBooks in 2015 previews
Previews of what to look for in 2015 have begun to appear, and while many more extensive ones have yet to appear some of these early ones are already fairly useful (within local limits ...)....
View ArticleStanisław Barańczak (1946-2014)
A bad two days for eastern European poetry, as Stanisław Barańczak died on the 26th; see the Gazeta Wyborcza tribute to him by Adam Zagajewski, or the AP report, Polish Poet, Translator...
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