Svetislav Basara's Mein Kampf
Eurozine prints an English translation of Ivan Telebar's A completely different battle, reporting that: 'Serbia's neo-fascist political establishment is the target of Svetislav Basara's...
View ArticleSupplementary book material online
At the Chronicle of Higher Education's Lingua Franca weblog Carol Saller asks When the Book Is Too Big, Are Online Supplements a Good Idea ? Sounds like a pretty good idea to me --...
View ArticleCullman Center Fellows announced
Yes, The New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers Announces 2012-2013 Fellows, which includes several creative writers as well as various writers...
View ArticleThe Columnist review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of David Auburn's Joe Alsop-play, The Columnist, premiering in New York next week, with John Lithgow in the lead role (one he should...
View ArticleGoing online, in Saudi Arabia
In the Saudi Gazette Laura Bashraheel reports that Youth shun 'ineffective' literary club, go online -- surely just a variation on an essentially global phenomenon, though it's probably no...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced yesterday -- though not before I posted this, so I don't even know if they awarded the fiction prize this year ..... (Results should be up by...
View ArticleAustralian literary magazines
In The Australian Christopher Bantick looks at a couple of Australian literary magazines and argues New views crucial to Australia's literary culture. He points out: Would any of them...
View ArticleWalaschek's Dream review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Giovanni Orelli's Paul Klee- (and football- (soccer-)inspired Walaschek's Dream.
View ArticleAtlas review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Dung Kai-Cheung's Hong Kong-novel, Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, forthcoming from Columbia University Press.
View ArticleThe Fiend with Twenty Faces review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Edogawa Rampo's The Fiend with Twenty Faces.
View ArticleAgrippa Q and A
An interesting Q & A at The Oxonian Review, where Courtney Traub has An Interview with Kevin Begos, Jr about this archival question: Last autumn, the Bodleian Library's Special Collections...
View ArticleRobert Weil Q and A
In The Los Angeles Times Irene Lacher has The Sunday Conversation: Robert Weil, the former W.W.Norton publisher now: "at the helm of the company's recently revived imprint, Liveright & Co"....
View ArticleWriting in (and on) ... India
In the Hindustan Times V.S.Naipaul-biographer Patrick French writes at some length on Writings on India [via]. He finds, for example: A rough hierarchy of respectability has formed among...
View ArticleLiterary prizes in ... Africa
In Vanguard Obi Nwakanma writes On the integrity of Nigerian literary prizes -- beginning with the observation that: There is no innocent literary prize just as no writing is innocent and free...
View ArticleAmong the Creationists review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jason Rosenhouse's Dispatches From the Anti-Evolutionist Frontline, Among the Creationists, just out from Oxford University Press.
View ArticlePEN World Voices Festival book bag
The PEN World Voices Festival starts next Monday, and one of the things they're doing is offering American Classics Take Two (scroll down), where: Our American Classics series returns with...
View ArticleTranslating from ... Tamil
In The Hindu D. Karthikeyan talks to "Puducherry-born writer, translator and art critic, Indran", in Tamil works must be translated into European languages as well. Indran notes: In the...
View ArticleNovella praise
At The Atlantic Joe Fassler writes about The Return of the Novella, the Original #Longread, with a focus on Melville House's The Art of the Novella-series. (Several of those titles are...
View ArticleThe Secret of Evil review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Roberto Bolaño's The Secret of Evil, a collection of his posthumous pieces just out from New Directions.
View ArticleCommonwealth Writers Prize shortlists
They've announced the shortlists for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize -- reduced, now, to a mere first-book prize -- and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. The only shortlisted title...
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