Memory Theatre review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Simon Critchley's novella Memory Theatre -- which came out last year from Fitzcarraldo Editions in the UK, and is due out in the...
View ArticleWilliam T. Vollmann 'By the Book'
The New York Times Book Review's 'By the Book'-column continues to be ... uneven, but this week's respondent is William T. Vollmann, and though I've never really taken to his work he offers up...
View ArticleKalidasa redux
I haven't seen Mani Rao's Kalidasa for the 21st Century Reader (see the Aleph Book Company publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk), but Vijay Nambisan's review in The...
View ArticleBooks to look forward to in ... South Africa
At BooksLive they have an overview of The Local Books to Look Forward to in 2015 (July-December), suggesting some of the more interesting publications forthcoming in South Africa in the coming...
View ArticleMésopotamie, carrefour des cultures exhibit
The Archives nationales exhibit Mésopotamie, carrefour des cultures: Grandes Heures des manuscrits irakiens runs through 24 August in Paris, and in Al-Ahram Weekly David Tresilian writes about...
View ArticleWind/Pinball goes global
Murakami Haruki's early novels, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 are being published in new translations (by Ted Goossen) in the US/UK -- in one volume titled, sigh, Wind/Pinball -- at the...
View ArticleAll You Need is Kill review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Sakurazaka Hiroshi's All You Need is Kill. This was the first title brought out by Haikasoru, in 2009; it is also the book...
View ArticleIndian literature
In The Hindu Mini Krishnan writes on literature in and from India -- especially in local languages --, in More than one life. She suggests: Well, the selfie of us with our...
View ArticleArabic literature in English
As part of the Shubbak Literature Festival in London they held a panel on The Rise of Arabic Literature in English yesterday. M. Lynx Qualey (of Arabic Literature (in English)) was one...
View ArticleWriting in ... India
In the Hindustan Times Aneesha Bedi looks at the phenomenon of 'young Indian authors whose writing is vibrant, personal and clicks instantly', in Literature in a hurry. A nice touch at...
View ArticleE-books at independent bookstores
In the Denver Post Jessica Iannetta reports that E-books for sale, but not selling, at independent booksellers, as: Eight years after Amazon released the first Kindle, surviving independent...
View ArticleReading in ... Bangladesh
At Scroll.in Ulka Anjaria finds: 'Choosing what to read is playing a crucial role in the uneasy conflict between the mother-tongue and English', in Reading Chetan Bhagat in Dhaka: the anxiety...
View ArticleWriting in ... Indonesia
At DeutscheWelle Monika Griebeler has a Q & A with Indonesian author Feby Indirani, Indonesian literature 'needs exposure to be noticed internationally'. Among her observations: The...
View ArticleSeagull Books profile
In Flight of the Seagull in The Caravan Anjum Hasan looks at: 'How an Indian publisher brought Europe home', profiling Seagull Books, the Naveen Kishore-led, India-based publisher that is one...
View ArticleWhat ʻĪsā Ibn Hishām told us review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Muḥammad al-Muwayliḥī's turn of the (last) century What ʻĪsā Ibn Hishām told us, just out in a two-volume edition in Roger...
View ArticleZIBF
The Zimbabwe International Book Fair began Monday -- and in The Herald Stanely Mushava reports that Book Fair begins on high note. He notes: Keynote speaker Walter Bgoya, of Mkuki na...
View ArticleSérie Noire profile
Via I'm pointed to Russell Williams' The Série Noire and Social Intervention at the Los Angeles Review of Books, a nice introduction/overview of Gallimard's 'grande collection de romans...
View ArticleCruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Luc Lang's Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor, just out in English from the University of Nebraska Press. This was...
View ArticleReading in ... Zimbabwe
In The Herald Stanely Mushava writes about the situation in Zimbabwe, in Cry our beloved reading culture. The lament is common enough -- though rarely is the fault ascribed as here:...
View ArticleOpen Letter profile
A nice long profile of publisher Open Letter Books by Rebecca Rafferty in the Rochester CITY Newspaper, Found in translation (arghh ...). Lots of interesting background, so check it out....
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