The Fear Index review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Robert Harris' hedge fund thriller, The Fear Index. (Well, there's a hedge fund setting .....)
View ArticleTelegram review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Putu Wijaya's 1973 novel, Telegram, now available in English as part of Lontar's Modern Library of Indonesia
View ArticleQueensland Premier's Literary Awards axed
There's a new premier in Queensland, and among the first things he's chopped are the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards. As they put it on the official site: The Queensland Premier's...
View ArticleAleksey Gogua Q and A
In Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Giorgio Comai has a Q & A with Aleksey Gogua, a writer in Sukhumi, a leading Abkhaz author. He's been around for a while (he was born 1932), and...
View ArticleThe books (and more) in Timbuktu
There was recently a coup in Mali -- see, for example, Soldiers Overthrow Mali Government in Setback for Democracy in Africa by Adam Nossiter in The New York Times, or (if you can stomach the...
View ArticleThe Leopard review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jo Nesbø's The Leopard, number eight in the Harry Hole series -- and one of the better ones, I thought.
View ArticleThirteen years of the complete review
Yes, it was 5 April 1999 -- 1999 ! -- that the first reviews went up at complete review. Thirteen years and 2869 reviews later it's still going ... well, I don't know about strong, but it's...
View ArticleAlexander Ilichevsky profile
At Russia Beyond The Headlines Phoebe Taplin profiles Alexander Ilichevsky (Александр Иличевский), in From Moscow's hidden tunnels to Russia's top literary prizes. Worth it just for the...
View ArticleElif Shafak Q and A
In The Observer William Skidelsky has a Q & A with Elif Shafak: 'In Turkey, men write and women read. I want to see this change'.
View ArticlePublishing in ... Thailand
In the Bangkok Post Anchalee Kongrut finds: 'A local publishing house refuses to jump on to the e-book bandwagon', in Bucking a trend, profiling publisher สำนักพิมพ์ผีเสื้อ (Butterfly Book).
View ArticleThe Lair review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Norman Manea's The Lair, one of a four-pack of Maneas coming out in Yale University Press' Margellos World Republic of Letters...
View ArticleRiyadh Book Fair report
At Qantara.de, Ulrike Freitag looks at Treading the Line between Censorship and Cautious Change at the recent Riyadh International Book Fair.
View Article'Book news from the Emirates'
In Al-Ahram Weekly David Tresilian has a pretty thorough look at Book news from the Emirates, reporting on various recent prizes, as well as the recent Abu Dhabi International Book Fair.
View ArticleBookselling (and more) in ... Greece
In the Chicago Tribune John Kass finds In Greece, books beat rocks -- at least at one local bookstore.
View ArticleMurakami translators
At the Center for the Art of Translation's Two Voices weblog Scott Esposito summarizes a recent event which featured Jay Rubin and J.Philip Gabriel on Translating Murakami. Full audio of...
View ArticleAuthors on re-reading
In The Observer they have an entertaining filler-piece on Rereading: authors reveal their literary addictions -- and, yes, there's also the obligatory nod to Patricia Meyer Spacks' recent book...
View ArticleCoetzee on new Werther-translation
In the new issue of The New York Review of Books, J.M.Coetzee reviews Stanley Corngold's new translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's classic, The Sufferings of Young Werther, in Storm Over...
View ArticleJeanette Winterson profile
In the Independent on Sunday Suzi Feay profiles Jeanette Winterson, in 'Winterson-world was bonkers !' (though you didn't even have to read Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal ? to know that...
View ArticleProfile: David Ireland
A fascinating profile in The Australian, as Stephen Romei goes in search of David Ireland, the great unknown. A three-time (!) winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in the...
View ArticleFinding Pereira
In The Guardian they nicely print The day Pereira came to call, in which recently deceased Antonio Tabucchi explains how he came to write Sostiene Pereira (a novel published under three...
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