The Receptionist review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Janet Groth's The Receptionist, a new memoir that claims to relate An Education at The New Yorker.
View ArticleQ and A with Roadside Picnic translator
At Books & Culture John Wilson has A conversation with translator Olena Bormashenko, about her new translation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's classic, Roadside Picnic [via]
View ArticleThe Gift review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Florence Noiville's short novel, The Gift, now coming out in English from Northwestern University Press. (It was amusing...
View ArticleQ and A with Günter Grass biographer
At Deutsche Welle Jochen Kürten has a Q & A with Günter Grass biographer and publisher Volker Neuhaus, What drives Günter Grass ? (a question surely better put to Grass himself)....
View ArticleThe Day before Happiness review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Erri De Luca's The Day before Happiness. This is an odd title -- aspects of it really impress, but others ... well, let me...
View ArticleTranslating Roberto Ampuero
I'm very much looking forward to Roberto Ampuero's The Neruda Case -- due out next week; see the Riverhead publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk -- and in Publishers...
View ArticleEnglish-language fiction abroad
At the NYRblog Tim Parks frequently muses about the global literary marketplace and the world republic of letters -- far off the mark, as often as not, I find, but I do find his most recent...
View ArticleCommonwealth Book Prize
They've announced that Chinaman -- now also available in the US, as the Legend of Pradeep Mathew -- by Shehan Karunatilaka has been awarded the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. This prize...
View ArticleNobel Prize devalued
The Board of Directors of the Nobel Foundation met yesterday and announced that: The Size of the Nobel Prize Is Being Reduced to Safeguard Long-Term Capital: At its meeting on June 11, 2012,...
View ArticlePrince of Asturias Award for Literature
They've announced that the 2012 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature has gone to Philip Roth -- selected from 24 nominations from 19 different countries. (Tantalizingly, they don't reveal...
View ArticleBarry Unsworth (1930-2012)
Booker-winning author Barry Unsworth has passed away; see, for example, The New York Times obituary. None of his books are under review at the complete review; I've read a couple, but...
View ArticleCynthia Ozick on the Orange Prize
Cynthia Ozick -- recently shortlisted for the all-women is-it-still-called-the-Orange-this-week-? Prize for Fiction -- considers whether considering just books written by women makes for Prize...
View ArticleDisgrace (The Absent One) review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the second in Jussi Adler-Olsen's 'Department Q'-series, Disgrace -- to be published in the US as The Absent One.
View ArticleHumayun Ahmed profile
In The Daily Star Rashid Askari writes about The genius of Humayun Ahmed, noting that: Humayun Ahmed is, now, easily the most popular writer in Bangladesha superstar author with a prolific...
View ArticleYA fiction in ... Malta
In The Sunday Times (Malta) Ramona Depares reports on The world of teenage fiction in Malta. Of some interest, though I admit the main reason I report this is to be able to print the...
View ArticleLionel Asbo reviews
Martin Amis' Lionel Asbo is out in the UK -- get your copy at Amazon.co.uk, or, in the US, where it's due out in August, pre-order your copy at Amazon.com -- and the first reviews are coming...
View ArticleHandke's Immer noch Sturm takes Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis
It ain't the Tony Awards®, but the Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis is arguably the leading German drama-prize, and Peter Handke takes it this year, for Immer noch Sturm -- amazingly enough, despite...
View ArticleRay Bradbury (1920-2012)
As widely reported, Ray Bradbury has passed away; see, for example, his official site -- though there are no end of tributes and reports to be found pretty much everywhere. None of his...
View ArticleKorean literature in translation
At Yonhap Charles Montgomery reports that LTI Korea charts new strategy to raise profile, as the Korean Literature Translation Institute continues to try to push Korean literature abroad (and,...
View ArticleAlgerian top ten ?
ANSAmed report that there's a Tribute to 10 literature greatest writers in Algiers subway, as: In occasion of the fifth International Festival of Literature, the subway in Algiers will host an...
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