Freud's Sister review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Goce Smilevski's Freud's Sister.
View ArticleFestival Mediterranju tal-Letteratura ta' Malta
The Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival -- Festival Mediterranju tal-Letteratura ta' Malta -- runs 30 August through 1 September, and as that program suggests, should be fairly interesting;...
View ArticleFifty Shades of Korean Grey
I am loath to ever mention this 'book', but its phenomenal success occasionally prods me to do so. As now does Kwaak Je-yup's piece in The Korea Times, arguing that 'Mommy porn' better in...
View ArticleIWP 2012 fall residents
The International Writing Program at the University of Iowa now list all the participants in the fall 2012 Residency -- foreign authors whose work is largely unknown here, but who certainly...
View ArticleThe Sharks review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jens Bjørneboe's 1974 novel, The Sharks. I've never understood why Bjørneboe never really caught on abroad; good for...
View ArticleChinese literature abroad
In China Daily Yang Guang reports on Chinese books' Journey to the West, finding that: 'The country's publishing industry is starting to see returns from its near 10-year going global...
View ArticleReading in ... Kerala
In Ajayan's column in in The Asian Age, Not a future perfect Onam in sight, the reading -- and writing -- situation in the Indian state of Kerala is seen as undergoing big changes: And around...
View ArticleTranslating in ... Viet Nam
Bach Lien profiles a Vietnamese translator in the VNS report, Duong Tuong devotes his life to literary passion. He's working on Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu and has previously...
View ArticleClaudio Magris Q & A
At Kirkus Jessa Crispin has A Talk with Claudio Magris about 'Blindly'. What there is is interesting, but it's not much -- and it's pretty cruel/rude to note/rub it in that: Magris and I...
View ArticleNew transcript
A new issue -- number 40 -- of the tri-lingual transcript is now available, the Summer shorts issue. They also note that: This issue will be one of the last in the current format -- we...
View ArticleReplay review
With Benjamin Stein's The Canvas coming out soon from Open Letter, the most recent addition to the complete review is my review of his new novel, Replay.
View ArticleMalta Mediterranean Literature Festival reports
Malta Today has several pieces on the Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival, which starts today: an overview, Malta Mediterranean Literature Festival explores the recession, Catalan author...
View Article2012 PEN Literary Awards
They've announced the recipients of the 2012 PEN Literary Awards. Among the awards of interest: the PEN Translation Prize went to Bill Johnston for his translation of Wiesław Myśliwski's...
View ArticleSome Remarks review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Essays and Other Writing by Neal Stephenson, Some Remarks.
View ArticleBjørnsonfestivalen
I'm a bit late with this -- nobody tells me these things -- but the 'Norwegian festival of international literature', Bjørnsonfestivalen, runs 29 August through 2 September (so you still have...
View ArticleComplete access to all 20th century Norwegian literature
This is pretty awesome: Kopinor (the Norwegian copyright-handling agency) and the Norwegian Nasjonalbiblioteket (National Library) have announced they're comprehensively putting Norsk...
View ArticleIn Time's Rift review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of poet Ernst Meister's collection, In Time's Rift, now out from Wave Books.
View ArticleIndian Nobel campaign
Oh, this is so sad: The Indian Express reports that Man starts Nobel prize campaign for Indian writers, as: A national fellow at the Indian Institute of Advances Studies in Shimla, Rajvinder...
View ArticleAmit Chaudhuri on Indian English writing
In The Caravan Amit Chaudhuri considers 'what counts for an indigenous tradition of Indian English writing ?' in The Sideways Movement (with a focus on Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's poetry)....
View ArticleDeon Meyer Q & A
In The Observer Alison Flood has a (disappointingly brief) Q & A with Deon Meyer: 'South Africa just isn't as sexy as Scandinavia'. I recently posted a review of his new novel, Seven...
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