The Canvas review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Benjamin Stein's The Canvas, loosely based on the Binjamin Wilkomirski scandal; it's forthcoming from Open Letter.
View ArticleIMPAC award preview
They're announcing the winner of the International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award today -- the announcement should be up at the official sometime during the day -- but in her preview in the Irish...
View ArticleThe Sense of an Ending review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Julian Barnes' Man Booker-winning The Sense of an Ending.
View ArticlePrehistoric Times review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Eric Chevillard's Prehistoric Times, just out (more or less) from Archipelago Press.
View ArticleBookselling in ... South Korea
Different locale -- today: South Korea --, another variation on the too-familiar sad story on the decline of bookstores: The Korea Times reports that Bookstores hang onto nostalgia of turning...
View ArticleChad Post Q and A
Via Three Percent, I learn of Tyler Malone's Q & A "Discussing the Importance of International Literature with Open Letter's CHAD POST" at PMc, Found in Translation. (Really ? 'Found in...
View ArticleIndian literature abroad
In Outlook India Neha Bhatt has 10 question with French 'literary' agent Marc Parent on taking Indian literature abroad.
View ArticleNecropolis review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Santiago Gamboa's Necropolis, the first of his works to be translated into English (and just out from Europa Editions)....
View ArticleJuly/August issue of World Literature Today
The July/August issue of World Literature Today is now, in decent part, available online -- including a nice selection from the always interesting reviews-section.
View ArticleNgũgĩ wa Thiong'o on 'Linguistic Power-sharing'
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o addressed the just-held South African Sunday Times Literary Awards, and they now print his speech, Linguistic Power-sharing: Culture and the freedom of expression. Some...
View ArticleTranzit, kometa, pomračenje review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Muharem Bazdulj's Tranzit, kometa, pomračenje (not --yet -- available in English ...).
View ArticleVoice of a generation in China ?
In China Daily Yang Guang suggests Xu Zechen [徐则臣] might be The voice of a generation in China -- noting also that: Running Through Zhongguancun [跑步穿过中关村], his 2006 novella about the love story...
View Article'Politics and literature' in ... Hungary
At hlo they take a look at Politics and literature in Hungary. While there's something impressive about literature being taken so seriously, quite a bit of this is also rather disturbing.
View ArticleThe Holocaust as Culture review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nobel laureate Kertész Imre's The Holocaust as Culture, just out from Seagull Books.
View ArticleBookselling in ... Burma
In The Irrawaddy Hypo Wai Tha has a Q & A with A Quiet Man of Many Words, Rangoon bookseller Khin Maung Sein [via].
View Articletraduki
As I mentioned yesterday, I just reviewed a Bosnian book (in German translation); publication, by Seifert Verlag, of that translation was made possible with help of traduki, which is a pretty...
View Article'Financiers; and literary prizes and festivals
In the Financial Times Nick Rice looks at the continuing ties between 'financiers' and literary prizes and festivals, in Buy the book, as: Although anti-establishment attitudes are common in...
View ArticleE-Book reading data
In the Wall Street Journal Alexandra Alter reports on: 'Digital-book publishers and retailers now know more about their readers than ever before. How that's changing the experience of reading'...
View ArticlePEN Translation Fund grants
They've announced the 2012 PEN Translation Fund Grant Recipients, as the Fund's Advisory Board -- Susan Bernofsky, Barbara Epler, Edwin Frank, Michael Reynolds, Richard Sieburth, Eliot...
View ArticleA Discovery of Witches review
The second volume in Deborah Harkness' 'All Souls Trilogy', Shadow of Night, is due out shortly (pre-order your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk), so I've finally gotten around to the first...
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