- Fall Books issue
This week's issue of The Nation is the Fall Books issue; among the articles of interest freely available online is Joanna Scott's Ragged, Unkempt, Strange: On William Faulkner.
View ArticleAuthors' 'books of the year - 2012'
The Guardian offers the always entertaining selection of Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites, which includes a few decent choices. Meanwhile, The Spectator spreads...
View ArticleRafik Schami profile
The Daily Star has Simon Sturdee's AFP profile of Author Rafik Schami fears for post-Assad Syria -- and: Schami says he has no plans to move back to Syria once Assad's regime has fallen,...
View ArticleMo Yan bashing: 'En katastrof' says Herta Müller
Well, clearly Nobel laureate Herta Müller wasn't the one who nominated Mo Yan for the prize, as she has given an interview to Dagens Nyheter (not freely accessible, but apparently here) in...
View ArticleMo Yan bashing: Diseased language !
I'm looking forward to the discussions about this article: in the Kenyon Review Anna Sun discusses The Diseased Language of Mo Yan, arguing that: The effect of Mo Yan's work is not illumination...
View ArticleThe Navidad Incident review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ikezawa Natsuki's The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matías Guili.
View ArticleCrime fiction in ... Sweden
The Svenska Deckarakademin have announced their annual crime fiction prizes (see my previous mention) -- though not yet at the official site, last I checked ..... As reported (here at...
View ArticlePrizes: Jalal Al-e Ahmad Literary Awards
As the Tehran Times reports, No winner selected for Iran's most lucrative literary awards this year. Normally, winners in each of the categories receive: "110 Bahar Azadi gold coins...
View ArticlePrizes: Finnish literary prizes
They've announced the Finlandia Prize for Fiction candidates 2012 -- the finalists for the Finlandia-palkinto -- selected from some 130 novels, with the winner to be announced 4 December....
View ArticleTransit review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Abdourahman A. Waberi's Transit, now available in English from Indiana University Press.
View ArticleKirkus Reviews 'Best of Fiction 2012'
The 'best books of the year'-lists keep coming (even as the year has not come to a close), and while I find them moderately interesting they also remind me that I seem to be living (and...
View ArticleAugustpriset
The Augustpriset is the leading Swedish literary prize, and they've announced this year's winners. They seem to have been in a real nostalgic-for-World-War-II mood this year: the fiction...
View ArticleRoyal Society Winton Prize for Science Books
The Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books has been awarded to The Information, by James Gleick.
View ArticleEnglish PEN Awards for Writing in Translation
Yes, English PEN Awards for Writing in Translation 2013 Announced, as these: "six books are to receive the 2013 English PEN Award for outstanding writing in translation". I already have...
View ArticleWeiwei-isms review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of the collection of Ai Weiwei's Weiwei-isms, edited by Larry Warsh and now out from Princeton University Press. It coincides...
View ArticlePublishing in ... (communist) Hungary
At hlo they have an interesting paper by Zsolt Czigányik that 'examines reader's reports in the archives of a Hungarian publishing house, and provides a glimpse into the elaborate ritual of...
View Article2012 Books: Slate Staff Picks
'Slate's editors, designers, and columnists choose their favorite books of 2012', in 2012 Books: Slate Staff Picks. Yet again I wonder what reading/reviewing universe I'm operating in: I...
View ArticleNYTBR 100 Notable Books of 2012
The editors of The New York Times Book Review have selected their 100 Notable Books of 2012. Predictably enough, I've only read and reviewed four (last year: six) -- and only seen a...
View ArticleThe Human Part review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Kari Hotakainen's The Human Part. Unbelievably, this is the first of Hotakainen's novels to be translated into English...
View ArticleCensorship in ... Burma
Nu Nu Yi's Smile as they Bow is one of the few Burmese novels in recent decades to have been translated into English and published in the US (you can count the total on one hand ...), but...
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