Words Onscreen review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Naomi S. Baron's nook on The Fate of Reading in a Digital World, Words Onscreen. Certainly an interesting topic -- and...
View ArticlePhilip Levine (1928-2015)
Yet another of the old(est) guard of American poets has passed away; Philip Levine. See, for example, the obituary in The New York Times, and Philip Levine at Poetry (lots of information, as...
View ArticleHaïlji profile
In The Korea Herald Joel Lee profiles the The Republic of Užupis-author, in Seoul Literary Society hosts novelist Ha Il-ji (or, as Dalkey Archive Press transliterated the name, Haïlji)....
View ArticleThe A26 review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pascal Garnier's The A26 -- out for a while already in the UK, from Gallic Books, but now finally also making it to the US.
View ArticleBTBA (re)scheduling
The judges for the Best Translated Book Awards (I'm one of them, in the fiction category) continue to sift and select (and, yes, are still welcoming incoming books -- it's (almost) never too...
View ArticleSemmelweis review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's dissertation (for his medical degree !), the very surprising Semmelweis. It's a neat little...
View ArticleBlack market in books in ... Mauritania
At Al-Fanar Media Rajel Oumar Hell Beilil reports that In Mauritania, a Black Market in Books Plagues Education. It's mainly the textbook market, but disturbing nonetheless: Since last...
View ArticleNAMA literary awards
They've handed out the (Zimbabwean) National Arts Merit Awards -- see all the winners here -- and in The Herald they take A look at NAMA literary awards, focusing on the literary winners.
View ArticleModern Library of Indonesia profile
In Clove Cigarettes and Indonesian Books: An Armchair Traveler's Pleasure at PopMatters William Gibson (no, not that one) profiles the Lontar Foundation and its wonderful Modern Library of...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald, in Tawanda Marwizi's ‘Cry my beloved literature’, Aaron Chiundura Moyo complains that in Zimbabwe: Literature is now dead not because we don't have good writers but because of...
View ArticleMishra on Murty Classical Library of India
In the Wall Street Journal Pankaj Mishra finds: 'An ambitious new library of Indian literature shows the cultural riches ignored by today's Hindu nationalists' in The Many Strands of Indian...
View ArticleBolaño literary criticism criticism
Cuban author Leonardo Padura (The Man Who Loved Dogs, etc.) isn't impressed by Roberto Bolaño as literary critic, calling him: "the worst literary critic of recent years", as Prensa Latina...
View ArticleFestival Neue Literatur
The Festival Neue Literatur has started -- bringing some: "of the best emerging and established writers from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland to New York City for a long winter weekend"....
View ArticleNobel nomination numbers
Nominations for the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature were due before 1 February, and at his weblog the still-in-charge-of-Nobel-matters (until the end of May) permanent secretary of the Swedish...
View ArticleHe Who Kills the Dragon review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Leif GW Persson's He Who Kills the Dragon. This came out in the UK in 2013 but has just been published in the US -- as...
View ArticleNordic Council Literature Prize finalists
They've announced the finalists for the 2015 Nordic Council Literature Prize. Each country/territory gets to nominate a fiction and a poetry title (though some only put up one or...
View ArticleHorcynus Orca, in German
I mentioned Stefano D'Arrigo's Horcynus Orca a couple of weeks ago, because the German translation of the nearly 1500-page work, by Moshe Kahn, is a finalist for the translation award of the...
View ArticleAdolf Muschg wins Grand Prix
They announced the winners of the Swiss literary prizes a few weeks ago (see my previous mention), but waited before announcing who gets the big 'Swiss Grand Prix in Literature' (or, as it is...
View ArticleJalāl Āl-e Ahmad reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two of Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad's travel-inspired works from the 1960s: His hajj-account, Lost in the Crowd (a Three Continents...
View Articleโมบี-ดิ๊ก: Moby-Dick (finally) complete in ... Thai
In The Bangkok Post Kong Rithdee reports on The crowdsourced hunt for the great Thai whale. Apparently there's never been a complete translation of Melville's Moby-Dick, so they...
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