Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927-2013)
German-born Anglo-Indian/American Man Booker Prize-winning author (and, as Merchant-Ivory collaborator, two time Academy Award winning screenwriter) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has passed away; see,...
View ArticleFourteen years of the complete review
Yes, I've been at this for fourteen years now: the first reviews were posted at the complete review on 5 April 1999. (The weblog part -- this Literary Saloon -- is a relatively late addition,...
View ArticleThe Ring review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Elisabeth Horem's The Ring, a 1994 novel now available in English from Dalkey Archive Press.
View ArticleLizzie Skurnick Books
At Publishers Weekly Claire Kirch reports that Shelf Discovery-author Lizzie Skurnick has nicely parlayed that into New Imprint to Reissue Forgotten YA Literature, as Ig Publishing is launching...
View ArticlePublishing in ... the Arabic-speaking countries
In Al-Ahram Weekly Ameera Fouad reports on the recently-held -- at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- second conference of the Arab Publishers Association, in God save the book. A lot to...
View ArticleLaLiGaBa finalists !
Yes ! as reported at Diena, Nosaukti Latvijas Literatūras gada balvas 2012 nominanti -- i.e. they've announced the finalists for the Latvian Literature Awards (or, as you of course know them...
View ArticleKaren Emmerich on 'the translator as editor'
At Words without Borders translator-from-the-Greek Karen Emmerich has an intriguing piece on 'The Making of Originals: The Translator as Editor' (obnoxiously spread out in two parts: see part...
View ArticleJavier Marías's Debt to Translation review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Gareth J. Wood's Javier Marías's Debt to Translation: Sterne, Browne, Nabokov. This monograph -- an 'Oxford Modern...
View ArticleHindi pulp fiction
In the Hindustan Times Aasheesh Sharma offers A peek into the noir world of Hindi pulp fiction [via]. The only title by any of these authors under review at the complete review is...
View ArticleBook selling (and trading) in ... Moscow
In The Moscow Times Aliide Naylor finds that Book Shopping and Swapping Thrives in the Capital.
View ArticleRobert Silvers Q & A
In this week's issue of New York Mark Danner has a nice long Q & A (link to print-view, apparently the only way to make it single-page viewable ...) of The New York Review of Books.
View ArticleLooking forward to: Liknelseboken
Per Olov Enquist has a new novel out -- in Swedish --, Liknelseboken: En kärleksroman ('Metaphor: A Love Story'); see the Norstedts publicity page. In Svenska Dagbladet Daniel Sandström...
View ArticleLooking forward to: The Man Who Loved Dogs
Still quite a few months away, but it's good to see Leonardo Padura's The Man Who Loved Dogs is finally coming out in English -- from Bitter Lemon Press in the UK (pre-order your copy from...
View ArticleA Tale for the Time Being review-overview
The most recent addition to the complete review is a review-overview of Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being. I wouldn't read to much into my not having finished this one; I've been...
View Article21 21st-century must reads ?
GQ offers The New Canon: The 21 Books from the 21st Century Every Man Should Read. For 'books' they mean 'works of fiction' (fine by me: that's what counts); of the twenty-one titles...
View ArticlePEN World Voices Festival of International Literature schedule
The schedule for the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature is now available online, and it looks fairly interesting. Running 29 April through 5 May, in New York City,...
View ArticleInternational IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlist
It's international fiction prize shortlist week ! Tomorrow the Best Translated Book Award releases its shortlist, on Thursday it's the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize's turn. First up,...
View ArticlePerihan Mağden Q & A
At Freeword Canan Marasligil has a Q & A with Turkish author Perihan Mağden [via]. Among her responses: Translation is a huge problem. I can only read in English -- thank God ! --...
View ArticleChanging of the guard at The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times Book Review remains one of the most significant book-review outlets in the US, and after almost a decade in office as editor running the place Sam Tanenhaus is finally moving...
View ArticleBest Translated Book Award shortlist
The shortlist for the Best Translated Book Award (for which I am one of the judges) will be announced at 10:00 EST today; around that time I'll update this post with the list and my commentary.
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