Régis Jauffret reviews
The most recent additions to the complete review are my reviews of two recent novels by Régis Jauffret: Lacrimosa Severe: A Love Story I mentioned the controversial Jauffret last fall,...
View ArticleAssessing Philip Roth
In New York magazine this week they have a Literary Caucus: Salman Rushdie, James Franco, and 28 More Notables Assess Philip Roth's Career. Some nice graphics, but when James Franco is...
View Article'Branding' Russian literature
So here's a gung ho kind of guy with a nice and batty idea: at Russia Beyond the Headlines Stepan Ivanov lets Dmitry Bak, the new director of the Literature Museum, try to explain How to brand...
View ArticleHooshang Golshiri Awards
Farzaneh Doosti has a 12th Golshiri Literary Awards Wrap Up, one of the more interesting -- because not state-sponsored and controlled -- Iranian literary prizes. However, even here, in what's...
View ArticleBurmese past and present
Reporting on the recent literary festival in Burma, Bill O'Toole considers Understanding the old kingdom in the new Myanmar, as The River of Lost Footsteps-author Thant Myint-U 'bemoaned how...
View ArticleFjöruverðlaunin
Among the literary prizes in Iceland is Fjöruverðlaunin, awarded for women's literature, and in Iceland Review they report that Auður Jónsdóttir Gets Women’s Literature Award, for her novel,...
View ArticleThe Detour (Ten White Geese) review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gerbrand Bakker's The Detour, now out in the US as Ten White Geese. A couple of days ago I noted on Twitter both my...
View ArticleMarch issue of World Literature Today
The March issue of World Literature Today is now available (in part) online. Fortunately, my favorite part -- the review sections -- is entirely accessible online, so check out all those...
View ArticleWindham Campbell Prizes
Okay, I admit it, I'm curious: they've announced that: The first recipients of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale will be announced at the Beinecke Rare Book and...
View ArticleKehlmann in praise of Carol Brown Janeway
I'm sorry I wasn't able to attend the ceremony for the inaugural Friedrich Ulfers Prize last week; awarded to: "to a leading publisher, writer, critic, translator, or scholar who has championed...
View ArticleBook-binding and -preserving
In The Harvard Crimson Connie Yan finds: 'The art of bookbinding creates a customized reading experience', in a quite interesting overview, Behind the Pages.
View Article(Re)translating Kafka
At the World Literature Today weblog Michelle Johnson has a Q & A with Michelle Woods about her new book, Kafka Translated: How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka -- which sounds...
View ArticleMo Yan Q & A
In Der Spiegel Bernhard Zand has what they're touting as Sandalwood Death-author Mo Yan's first interview "since receiving the Nobel Prize in literature", Nobel Laureate Mo Yan: 'I Am Guilty'....
View ArticleJewish literary prizes
They've announced that Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander has been awarded the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize 2013 (though, sigh, not yet at the official site, last I checked; but see, for...
View ArticleStéphane Hessel (1917-2013)
Stéphane Hessel, who wrote the mega-bestselling (at least in France) Time for Outrage ! has passed away; see, for example obituaries in The Guardian (by Kim Willsher) and The Telegraph (by...
View ArticleHappy Moscow review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Soviet author Andrey Platonov's Happy Moscow, now out in a revised translation from New York Review Books.
View ArticleAward: OCM Bocas longlist
They've announced the longlist for the 2013 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, ten titles in three categories (fiction, non, and poetry), representing six Caribbean countries. One...
View ArticleAward: F-AF Translation Prize finalists
They've announced the French-American Foundation Translation Prize Finalists, five each in fiction and in non. Three of the fiction finalists are under review at the complete review:...
View ArticleAward: NBCC winners
Yesterday the National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of the 2012 NBCC Awards -- usually one of the more reliable American literary prizes. None of the winning titles are...
View ArticleProfile: Ruth Rendell
In The Guardian Alison Flood profiles Ruth Rendell: a life in writing. None of her books are under review at the complete review, but I've read close to two dozen and almost always found...
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