Krasznahorkai reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two recently translated Krasznahorkai László books: His 1985 novel (and the basis for the movie of the same name), Satantango...
View ArticleSlate Book Review, coming soon
In The New York Times Julie Bosman reports that Slate to Begin a Monthly Review of Books. [Aside: much as I continue to fail to understand the publishing industry, so too I am baffled by...
View ArticleMore VIDA reactions and numbers
In The Guardian Alison Flood and Michael Bonnet look at the VIDA 2011 Count -- see my previous mention -- noting Gender bias in books journalism remains acute, research shows. Usefully,...
View ArticlePEN World Voices Festival preview
The full schedule will only be out 15 March, but the official site already offers a few highlights of the upcoming PEN World Voices Festival, which runs 30 April to 6 May in New York....
View ArticleMarch issues
Among March issues of online periodicals now available are Words without Borders' The Mexican Drug War-issue, and Open Letters Monthly's The Criticism Issue.
View ArticleCzech literary links with Scandinavia
At Radio Praha David Vaughan has a Q & A with Martin Humpál, as they talk about: "Heaven, distance, light and dazzling brightness": Czech literary links with Scandinavia.
View ArticleChaudhuri 'On Tagore'
In The Hindu Subash Jeyan has a Q & A with Amit Chaudhuri, Quiet polyphonies -- mainly about Chaudhuri's new book, On Tagore (apparently currently only available in India; see the Penguin...
View ArticleNights of Awe review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Harri Nykänen's Nights of Awe.
View ArticleShortlist: French-American Foundation
The French-American Foundation has announced the finalists for its annual translation prizes for "the best translation from French to English in fiction and non-fiction". All the fiction...
View ArticleKarachi Literature Festival report
At Qantara.de Stefan Weidner reports on the recent Third Karachi Literature Festival, in Long on Talent, Short on Time.
View ArticleShortlist: Martyr Avini Literary Award
IBNA has announced that 380 works shortlisted for Martyr Avini Literary Award. That's the Iranian 'Resistance Book of the Year', awarded in six categories, with this 'shortlist' selected from...
View ArticleThe Tibetan Book of the Dead review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Donald S. Lopez, jr.'s The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Biography. Yes, that's a book about The Tibetan Book of the Dead,...
View ArticleOgochukwu Promise Q and A
In Vanguard Prisca Sam-Duru and Vera Samuel Anyagafu have a Q & A with writer Ogochukwu Promise, who also founded the Lumina Foundation, which runs the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in...
View ArticleNew Quarterly Conversation
The Spring/2012 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is now available, with the usual mix of essays, interviews, and reviews, including a Q & A by Juan Carlos Pérez-Duthie with Edmundo Paz...
View ArticleKobzar Literary $25,000 Biennial Award
They've announced the winner of the Kobzar Literary $25,000 Biennial Award -- which: "recognizes outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts by authors who develop a Ukrainian Canadian...
View ArticleNorman Manea
The spring issue of The Threepenny Review has Robert Boyers' Norman Manea at Seventy-Five -- a good occasion also to remind you that Yale University Press' admirable Margellos World Republic of...
View ArticleLiterary prizes in ... Burma
Is it another sign that things are opening up in Burma ? In The Myanmar Times Nyein Ei Ei Htwe reports that Literature award permitted to return after 3 years -- the Taw Phayar Ka Lay...
View ArticleCookbook sales in ... Australia
In the Sydney Morning Herald Joel Meares wonders: 'Cookbook sales are plummeting. Is it time for a new recipe ?' in Too many books ... That's a bit misleading, as sales are not, in fact...
View ArticlePortrait of the Mother as a Young Woman review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Friedrich Christian Delius' Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman. Peirene Press brought this out in the UK in 2010, and...
View Article'Literary' agents in ... India
At his Straight Talk weblog Tanuj Khosla offers a Warning for aspiring authors: beware of fake literary agents, as the explosion of publishing in India has seen ... well, lots of new...
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