Search Sweet Country review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kojo Laing's Search Sweet Country. The new version of the 'Heinemann African Writers Series' brought this out in a new...
View ArticleAzerbaijani Museum of Literature plans
ABC.az reports that Azerbaijan's head allocated AZN 5 million for construction of Museum of Literature in Gazakh. Seems kind of an out-of-the-way place for a museum, but better than...
View ArticleJune issues
Among June issues of online periodicals now available: - Open Letters Monthly -- which includes the always interesting look at other reviews, in this case John Cotter looking at the...
View ArticleDigitized review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Peter J. Bentley's book on The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World, Digitized.
View ArticleMario Vargas Llosa Q and A
PBS Newshour has a segment (plus transcript) of Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature by Jeffrey Brown, as the publicity-machine for his Roger Casement-novel, The...
View ArticleMartin Amis profile
The Lionel Asbo-publicity machine gathers steam with the next looooong profile of Martin Amis, as Tom Lamont reports on Martin Amis: a new chapter in America in The Observer. (I am...
View ArticleThe Pilgrim review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Iwan Simatupang's The Pilgrim, recently reissued in Lontar's admirable Modern Library of Indonesia-series.
View ArticleUn-censoring Burmese fiction
In The Myanmar Times Zon Pann Pwint finds folks are finally Shining light on censored fiction. Until now: For the past 50 years, literature lovers in Myanmar have been able to read only...
View Article2012 translations into English: Arabic, Japanese literature
Great resources from some specialized weblogs: - At Arabic Literature (in English) there's the useful A Look at What's New in 2012: Arab and Arabic Literature (in English) - At...
View ArticleLaurent Binet profile
In The Telegraph "Jasper Rees talks to Laurent Binet about his playful new novel about an assasination attempt, HHhH." Rees notes about the book: It all sounds highly French, and in...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Israel
In Haaretz Maya Sela reports that now Top publisher stops accepting new writers as protest against bookselling duopoly, as: The New Library literary imprint has announced that it has stopped...
View ArticleSummer 2012 Quarterly Conversation
The Summer 2012 issue of the Quarterly Conversation is up, with lots of articles, interviews, and reviews -- lots of books and authors of interest under discussion.
View ArticleInterviews at The Oxonian Review
At The Oxonian Review Alexander Barker and Alex Niven have An Interview with Terry Eagleton -- who notes, among other things: "It's not a good time to be in the universities." He also...
View ArticleTraveler of the Century review-overview
The most recent addition to the complete review is a review-overview of Andrés Neuman's Traveler of the Century (or, as it's called in the UK, Traveller of the Century). Prize-winning,...
View ArticleBook-discounting in ... Israel
Maya Sela reports in Haaretz that: 'Ten top Israeli authors tell their publishers they don't want their books sold at discount prices at the 51st Hebrew Book Week, describing low prices as...
View ArticleNew edition of The Forty Days of Musa Dagh
At Tablet Liel Leibovitz praises The Best Holocaust Novel Ever, Franz Werfel's The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. This is out in a new edition from Godine, who explain on their publicity page...
View ArticleAndrukhovych on Euro 2012
Euro 2012 -- the European football (soccer) championships -- are being co-hosted by Ukraine and Poland this year, and start on Friday. At the Slovakian Salon Yuri Andrukhovych -- or Jurij...
View Article'Publishing the World'
At Publishing Perspectives Brittany Hazelwood and Samantha Steele report on how Publishing the World Targets Foreign Literature and its Young Lovers -- introducing; 'A young editor's essential...
View ArticlePublishing in ... Israel
The Israeli debates over book-pricing, royalties, and discounting continue -- with now, as Meirav Arlosoroff reports in Haaretz, Finance Ministry suggests state fund for benefit of Israel's...
View ArticleSubversive Little Women ?
In The American Prospect Deborah Weisgall writes about: 'The secret subversiveness of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women', in The Mother of All Girls' Books. She notes: Little Women is...
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