The Last of the Vostyachs review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Diego Marani's The Last of the Vostyachs -- another winner from Dedalus.
View ArticleHilary Mantel takes on the (modern) royals
Not a very literary story, but there are few things as silly as the continued existence of monarchies -- with the bloated British House of Windsor at the top of the list of disposable entities...
View ArticleGlagoslav profile
At Publishers Perspective Daniel Kalder profiles publisher Glagoslav, in Bringing the Best of Russian and Other Slavic Literature to the West. None of their books are under review at the...
View ArticleMost beautiful Austrian books, 2012
They've announced the 15 schönsten Bücher Österreichs 2012 -- the fifteen most beautiful Austrian books, 2012; click on the picture and then on the titles to see the fifteen winning titles....
View ArticleFestival: PEN World Voices Festival
The PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is still a ways away -- it runs 29 April to 5 May in New York -- but the first details and participants are now available at their...
View ArticleFestival: Festival Neue Literatur
The Festival Neue Literatur, presenting: "New Writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the U.S." (with two author each) runs 22 to 24 February in New York city. Things start off...
View ArticleThe Retrospective review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of A.B.Yehoshua's new novel, The Retrospective. This picked up several best-foreign-book-of-the-year prizes in France, and...
View ArticleTirza in English !
Arnon Grunberg's Tirza is finally out in English this week, from Open Letter; as longtime readers know I'm a big fan and have been touting this since I read it in 2009: it was, as I've noted,...
View ArticleFeria Internacional del Libro de La Habana
The Havana International Book Fair runs through the 24th, and at the BBC Sarah Rainsford reports that Havana book fair feeds Cuba's hunger for literature. Leonardo Padura Fuentes...
View ArticleWe, the Children of Cats review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of a collection of stories and novellas by Hoshino Tomoyuki, We, the Children of Cats.
View ArticleDiagram Prize shortlist
As Katie Allen reports in The Bookseller, Six picked for oddest book title shortlist as they've announced the finalists for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year. Usually...
View ArticleWagner-mania
Apparently it's the Wagner bicentennial, and even if you haven't heard much about that German publishers are pulling out all the stops, as Anastassia Boutsko reports in her look Inside the maze...
View ArticleTranslations from the French, 2012
This is a handy resource, and I wish it were available for all languages: at French Culture Rachael Small reports on the 2012 Translated Titles List -- a list of all translations from the...
View ArticleTokyo International Literary Festival preview
The Tokyo International Literary Festival runs 1 to 3 March, and in The Japan Times Sandra Barron previews it, in Tokyo literary festival writes its opening chapter. Should be pretty...
View ArticleLos Angeles Times Book Prize finalists
They've announced the finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. A surprising three of the titles are under review at the complete review: two in the Mystery/Thriller category --...
View ArticleJavier Marías profile
In The Guardian Nicholas Wroe profiles Javier Marías: a life in writing. Quite a few of his books are under review at the complete review, and I will be getting to more -- although it...
View ArticleThe end of CanLit ?
In The Walrus Charles Foran argues it's: End of Story, with the demise of Douglas & McIntyre just the last nail in the coffin, as: "The era of cultural nationalism came and went long ago"...
View ArticleTeaching literature in ... Ukraine
The piece can't quite live up to its title, but Daryna Shevchenko's Sex to come to schools together with modern Ukrainian literature in the Kyiv Post does offer some insight into Ukrainian...
View ArticleFrench literature in English
At The Spectator's Books blog Florence Uniacke looks at Doing it the French way, a weird amalgam of observation and critique about how little French literature finds its way into English....
View ArticleThe 3 Mistakes of my Life - the movie
They've made a movie out of Chetan Bhagat's The 3 Mistakes of my Life (consistently one of the most popular reviews at the complete review), titled Kai Po Che ! It opened this weekend in...
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