21st Century's 12 greatest novels ?
BBC Culture apparently polled "several dozen book critics" in trying to determine "the greatest novels of the opening years of this tumultuous century"; alas the critics, notable though they...
View ArticleNBCC Awards finalists
They've announced the finalists for the (American) National Book Critics Circle Awards in the six categories they honor (fiction, general non-fiction, auto- and biography, criticism, and...
View ArticleMayakovsky review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Bengt Jangfeldt's Mayakovsky: A Biography, just out in English from the University of Chicago Press. Let's hope it leads...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Turkey
In Hurriyet they report that Book production on rise in Turkey, which sounds good. Hey, "More than 561 million copies of books were published in Turkey last year" ! Alas, a mere "3...
View ArticleWakefield Press Q & A
At Entropy they have a Q & A with Marc Lowenthal of the wonderful Wakefield Press. Always fascinating to see how small presses with such an impressive output manage -- with Wakefield the...
View ArticleWho's Afraid of Meryl Streep ? review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Rashid al-Daif's Who's Afraid of Meryl Streep ?: now out in English from the University of Texas Press.
View ArticleWriting in ... Burma
At Sampsonia Way James Byrne considers On the Precipice: Burmese Literature Post-Censorship. There's a very small selection of Burmese (and Burma-related) literature under review at the...
View ArticleJohn Bayley (1925-2015)
Iris Murdoch's husband (and Elegy for Iris, etc. author) John Bayley has passed away. Though accomplished in his own right -- as literary critic, among other things -- he has not...
View ArticleEdgar® finalists
They've announced the 2015 Edgar® nominees -- crime fiction, with none of the finalists under review at the complete review.
View ArticleFrench Voices Grand Prize
Nine titles were selected as grantees for the Fall 2014 session of the French Voices Award -- five fiction and four non-fiction (with a stunning three being published in English by Fordham...
View ArticleBonita Avenue review-overview
The most recent addition to the complete review is a review-overview of Peter Buwalda's Bonita Avenue.
View ArticleACFNY Translation Prize 2015
They've announced that Tess Lewis' translation of Maja Haderlap's Engel des Vergessens, 'Angel of Oblivion' has won this year's Austrian Cultural Forum New York Translation Prize -- apparently...
View ArticleBestselling in France, 2014
They've now tallied the 2014 sales in France and while the official GFK/Livres Hebdo figures aren't freely accessible online they do offer a bit of a summary. Valérie Trierweiler's...
View ArticleDSC Prize for South Asian Literature
They've announced that The Lowland (by Jhumpa Lahiri) has won the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. It's not under review at the complete review, but you can get your copy at...
View ArticleRubble Flora review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the first English translation of Selected Poems by Volker Braun, Rubble Flora, translated by David Constantine and Karen Leeder...
View ArticleSami Rohr Prize finalists
They've announced the five finalists for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, the impressively endowed -- the winner gets US$100,000 -- prize for: "a book of literary merit that...
View ArticleSoumission in ... Germany
As I mentioned last week, Michel Houellebecq's Soumission has been a phenomenal success in France. It's now come out in Germany -- and its run continues: boersenblatt.net reports that it...
View ArticleHakka literature
In the Taipei Times Lii Wen reports that Awards celebrate Hakka literature, reporting on the fifth Tung Blossom Literary Awards (桐花文學獎).
View ArticleRussian book trailers
At Russia Beyond the Headlines Julia Shevelkina reports that: 'Russian bookstores are using movie style trailers to grab people's attention and promote interest in reading', in Bringing a touch...
View ArticleSwiss franc/Swiss publishers
The recent, abrupt pull-back by the Swiss National Bank, allowing the Swiss franc to float freely (and appreciate most dramatically) -- see, for example, Edward Harrison at Foreign Policy on...
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