Man Booker Prize longlist
As reported everywhere, they've now announced the thirteen-title-strong longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize. They were selected from 156 submissions -- though, alas, the Man Booker...
View ArticleJuan Gabriel Vásquez 'By the Book'
The New York Times Book Review has Juan Gabriel Vásquez (The Informers, etc.) answer this week's 'By the Book' Q & A. Like so many prominent foreinh-language-writing authors, he has...
View ArticleCaine Prize follow-up
The Caine Prize for African Writing is the leading African short story prize, with a solid track record. In the Daily Trust Nathaniel Bivan now looks at the Literary Journey of 5...
View ArticleWind/Pinball reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of Murakami Haruki's two earliest novels, now published together in one volume, in a new translation by Ted Goossen, as...
View ArticleAnother translation of The Story of The Stone
As longtime readers know, I hold Cao Xueqin's The Story of The Stone, in David Hawkes and John Minford's translation, to be one of the peaks of literature. Interesting to learn now that, as...
View ArticleReading in ... Russia
In The Moscow Times Anastasia Bazenkova reports that Russia's Book Industry Shrinks as Russians Stop Reading. It's not that they've stopped reading entirely, but apparently there has...
View ArticleMonitoring the literary judges in China ?
In Xinhua they report that Chinese literature prize guards against corrupt judging, as The organizers of one of China's top literary awards have set up a team to supervise the judging process...
View ArticleWhat kids should read ?
In the UK the 'TES and the National Association for the Teaching of English ran a survey to find teachers' top 100 fiction books all children should read' -- before leaving primary school and...
View ArticleSummer issue of list
It's well-hidden at the official site -- certainly not to be found under 'Current Issue' (that would be much too easy ...) -- but the Volume 28, Summer 2015 issue of list Books from Korea -- "a...
View ArticleAugust Words without Borders
The August issue of Words without Borders, Myth and History: Writing from Indonesia, is now available online; it also includes the usual reviews, as well as 'Three Tibetan Short Stories'....
View Article'Difficult Fiction'
The fine novelist Joanna Scott argues for The Virtues of Difficult Fiction in The Nation, discussing books including Naomi S. Baron's Words Onscreen -- and finding: The surprising problem...
View ArticleTade Ipadeola Q & A
In The Sun Henry Akubuiro has a Q & A with Tade Ipadeola, NNLG laureate: I have no time for literary zombies -- which is certainly a nice headline. Admirable that he's translated...
View ArticleFragments of Lichtenberg review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Pierre Senges' quite remarkable Fragments of Lichtenberg, due out shortly from Dalkey Archive Press (and, yes, this is a very...
View ArticleAlyson Waters Q & A
At the Asymptote blog Katrine Øgaard Jensen has a Q & A with translator Alyson Waters.
View ArticleCarol Brown Janeway
Longtime Alfred A. Knopf editor and translator Carol Brown Janeway has passed away -- apparently rather suddenly; see Sonny Mehta's company-memo (warning ! dreaded pdf format !). The...
View ArticleVicious review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Xurxo Borrazás' Vicious -- somewhat surprisingly, the first translation-from-the-Galician under review at the complete review....
View ArticleDigitizing the Iraqi national library
Vivian Salama's AP story -- here at the Daily Star -- is, as so much news about cultural preservation from this part of the world over the past decade-plus has been, deeply depressing, as she...
View ArticleNEA translation fellowships
The (American) National Endowment for the Arts has announced its Fiscal Year 2016 NEA Literature Translation Fellowship Recipients (warning ! dreaded pdf format !) and there are a lot of neat...
View ArticleRoyal Society shortlist
They've announced the shortlist for the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books. Looks like a decent selection, but none are under review at the complete review; I really...
View ArticleSimon Liberati's Eva
Ah, what would the French 'rentrée littéraire' -- the fall release of a flood of French fiction -- be without a good scandal, preferably tinged with sex, lawsuits, and depictions of real people...
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