Covers of ... books by South Asian women writers
At Scroll.in Lisa Lau explores Why do so many books by South Asian women writers have the same kind of covers ? Among the embarrassing observations: We also compared those covers...
View Article(Criminal) Borgesian remix
As reported in The Guardian, Pablo Katchadjian's 2009 remix of a Jorge Luis Borges story in El Aleph engordado has landed him in a heap of legal trouble. The Guardian piece, by Fernando...
View ArticleMurakami's beginnings
We've heard a lot of this before, but it's still entertaining to read Murakami Haruki on his beginnings as a writer; the Literary Hub now prints the introduction from the forthcoming...
View ArticleRentrée littéraire preview
The 'rentrée littéraire' is the annual French flooding of the book market that starts at the end of August, and they've now released the first numbers: Livres Hebdo reports that there will be...
View ArticleReading the World review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ann Morgan's Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer, which has just been published in the US, as The World Between...
View ArticleFinancial Times summer books list
The FT's Summer books 2015 -- "FT writers and guests pick their books of the year so far" -- is certainly ... extensive -- but, helpfully divided up by subject-matter (including 'Fiction in...
View ArticlePrint/digital in ... Hungary
At hlo Szabolcs László considers Print vs. online literary journals in Hungary -- a subject of some debate, apparently. Among the fun incidental titbits: hand-writing Péters Nádas and...
View ArticleAubrey Menen profile
Nakul Krishna's look at 'The particular strangeness of Aubrey Menen', Is Fun Fun ? is now fully accessible at The Caravan. There doesn't seem to be any Menen currently in print in the US...
View ArticleSunday Times Literary Awards
They've announced the winners of the 2015 (South African) Sunday Times Literary Awards, with Arctic Summer, by Damon Galgut, taking the fiction prize, and Askari, by Jacob Dlamini, taking the...
View Article'Russian Library' (redux ?)
In The New York Times Andrew Roth reports that Columbia University Press to Publish New Translations of Russian Literature, as: The idea, tentatively named the Russian Library, envisions...
View ArticleThe Festival of Insignificance review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Milan Kundera's recent novel -- his first in over a decade -- The Festival of Insignificance. Interesting to see the mixed...
View ArticleHKW International Literary Prize
The've announced that Amos Oz's הבשורה על פי יהודה, in Mirjam Pressler's German translation (as Judas) has won this year's Internationaler Literaturpreis - Haus der Kulturen der Welt -- the big...
View ArticleThe Defence of Lawino review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A New Translation of Wer pa Lawino by Taban lo Liyong, his translation of Okot p'Bitek's The Defence of Lawino. I reviewed...
View ArticleCWA International Dagger
They announced the winners of the (UK) Crime Writers' Association yesterday, and the CWA International Dagger, for a crime-book "not originally written in English and has been translated into...
View ArticleBảo tàng Văn học Việt Nam
Việt Nam News reports that First Vietnamese literature museum opens to public. Apparently: "construction did not begin till 2004" on the three-story building -- and it seems it took over...
View ArticleKafka manuscripts to National Library of Israel (probably)
One of the more entertaining literary estate trials of recent years may have run its course, as a Tel Aviv District Court has rejected an appeal by the not-quite-heirs of Max Brod's remaining...
View ArticleHollow Heart review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Viola Di Grado's dead-girl-talking novel, Hollow Heart, just out from Europa Editions.
View ArticleJuly Words without Borders
The July issue of Words without Borders, now available online, features: 'Emerging German Writers', with a bonus batch of: 'Burundi: Writing from the State of Sleep'.
View ArticleBooks from Finland closes shop
More than a month ago I mentioned they were pulling the plug on the wonderful Books from Finland site -- keeping it only as an archive -- and now they've gone and done it: here's the final...
View ArticleWriting in ... Africa
In Vanguard Ikenna Asomba reports on the Nigerian Breweries/Farafina 2015 Literary Evening held last weekend, where Adichie, Wainaina worry over dearth of literary works in African languages....
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