Heroes and Villains review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Angela Carter's 1969 novel, Heroes and Villains (which was recently reissued in the UK but appears to be out of print in the US).
View Article'The Last Book Sale'
Author Larry McMurtry also runs the mega-bookstore, Booked Up, but 10-11 August he's holding The Last Book Sale, where over two hundred thousand titles are going to be auctioned off (over 1400...
View Article2012 books lists
The Guardian has just come out with its list of The big novels of 2012, a modestly useful overview of many of the 'big' (i.e. published by major houses, guaranteed lots of press coverage...
View ArticleP.D.James profile
In The Observer Kate Kellaway profiles PD James: inside the head of a criminal mastermind -- which includes some Q & As, with questions from a variety of authors and readers, including ......
View ArticleKawabata's Carousel-adaptation
Nobody seems to have been very curious about this previously, but they've now figured out that, as Manabu Hoshino reports in The Asahi Shimbun, Kawabata's unpublished adaptation of short novel...
View ArticleMohamed El-Bisatie (1937-2012)
Egyptian author Mohamed El-Bisatie (محمد البساطي) has passed away -- though as ahramonline has it, Egyptian writer Mohammed El-Bosaty dies at 75 (ah, transliteration, always good for...
View ArticleAn Unending Landscape review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Estonian author Toomas Vint's An Unending Landscape, coming out from Dalkey Archive Press.
View ArticleFilm versions: Thomas, Lapidus
This weekend saw the (very limited) US release of the film versions of two novels under review at the complete review: Benoît Jacquot's take on Chantal Thomas' Farewell, My Queen (Virginie...
View ArticlePenguin Metro Reads
At DNA Deepanjana Pal reports on The hunt for the next Chetan Bhagat -- i.e. the search for the next truly mass-market author in India. (Several Bhagat titles are under review at the complete...
View ArticleAtiq Rahimi Q and A
At Qantara.de Shikiba Babori has a Q & A with The Patience Stone-author Atiq Rahimi, Unable to Move Forward -- mainly about the situation in Afghanistan.
View Articleidreambooks.com
idreambooks.com -- variously referred to as 'iDreamBooks' and 'I Dream Books' in press reports, but only as 'Dream' at the site (and, confusingly, the official blog of the site calls itself:...
View ArticleWorld Literature Today weblog
World Literature Today has launched The WLT Blog, a promising addition to their growing online coverage; I look forward to following it.
View ArticleHargeysa International Book Fair
The Hargeysa International Book Fair runs through tomorrow; there's a preview at Somalilandpress, and now Mark Tran reports Somaliland's Hargeisa book festival celebrates fifth year in The...
View ArticleFowl-Filcher review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ranga Rao's Fowl-Filcher -- the first original novel published by Penguin Books (India), back in 1987 when they were just getting...
View ArticleToni Morrison profile
In The Telegraph Ariel Leve profiles Toni Morrison on love, loss and modernity, at considerable length.
View Article(Destroyed-)cover art
The Moscow Times has a Reuters piece on Turning a Russian Book Into Art in Iraq, reporting on Iraqi artist Qasim Sabti's interesting cover art; see examples of it here (scroll down).
View ArticleE-books abroad
While e-books have certainly taken off in the US and UK, there are still many markets where they are just beginning to be widely available. In The Hindu Anuj Srivas reports that Penguin...
View ArticleTranslation from the ... Hungarian
At hlo they report that Support for translation costs: list of winners announced, as the Hungarian Books and Translations Office has announced who they're giving money to in translation support...
View ArticleBooks in ... Nigeria
Vanguard has two pieces on the literary situation in Nigeria -- where the recent UNESCO announcement, Port Harcourt named "World Book Capital 2014" should also help in the promotion of all...
View ArticleMan Booker Prize longlist preview
They're announcing the longlist for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction on 25 July -- next Wednesday -- and so there's been a bit of speculation about what the list will look like. Since...
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