At the End of a Dull Day review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Massimo Carlotto's new noir, At the End of a Dull Day.
View ArticleGranta's 20-under-40
For the fourth time, Granta has come up with a list of what it considers the 'Best of Young British Novelists' -- the twenty most promising novelists under the age of forty. Not many...
View ArticlePulitzer Prize winners
They've announced the 2013 Pulitzer Prize winners. The criticism prize went to art critic Philip Kennicott (who beat out two TV critics). The fiction prize went to The Orphan...
View ArticleApril issue of Asymptote
The April issue of Asymptote is now available online -- and there's a lot of great stuff here to keep you busy. Among the (many) highlights: pieces by and about Marginalia on...
View ArticleThe Sound of One Hand Killing review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Catalan author Teresa Solana's The Sound of One Hand Killing.
View ArticleProfile: Andreï Makine
Also in The Telegraph, Tim Martin profiles Andreï Makine -- whose unusual career-path ("he was forced to pretend that his books were translations from Russian originals before French publishers...
View ArticleProfile: Paula Fox
In The Telegraph Nigel Farndale offers a Paula Fox interview: the novelist talks of her turbulent life.
View ArticlePhantoms on the Bookshelves review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Jacques Bonnet's Phantoms on the Bookshelves. (As a book hoarder and 'manic reader', I can relate -- and, of course, love...
View ArticleWriters' national identities
In Salon (Slovakia), in To hesitate is fine, Ilma Rakusa discusses the national labeling of writers, pointing out that: I write in German but never about Germany and even less about Switzerland...
View ArticleEtgar Keret Q & A
In Eurozine Ieva Lesinska has a fairly extensive Q & A with Etgar Keret, High register, low register. Some interesting translation-discussion -- as well as an explanation why Keret...
View ArticleSpring issue of list
The spring 2013 issue of list - Books from Korea is now available online, with a fairly large selection of reviews as well as numerous other pieces.
View ArticleCarlos Rojas and Edith Grossman Q & A
Carlos Rojas' The Ingenious Gentleman and Poet Federico García Lorca Ascends to Hell, translated by Edith Grossman, is surely one of the more interesting translations coming out this year...
View ArticleGuantanamo prison library pictures
At his Guantanamo prison library books for detainees-tumblr The New York Times reporter Charlie Savage collects pictures of the books on the shelves of the Gitmo library. Great stuff --...
View ArticleAlgerian Chronicles review
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles, finally available in English from Harvard University Press.
View ArticleThe new but same old The New York Times Book Review ...
As I mentioned last week, The New York Times Book Review has a new leader, as Pamela Paul has taken over from longtime head-man Sam Tanenhaus. As I've noted so many times over the years,...
View ArticlePrague Writers' Festival
The Festival spisovatelů Praha ran 17 through 19 April; yes, I'm a bit late with that news, but nevertheless Siegfried Mortkowitz's Preview: Prague Writers' Festival in The Prague Post is worth...
View ArticleAchebe's Nobel (and why he didn't get it) ?
In The Sun Beatrice and Solomon Ojehonmon consider at length Why things fell apart at the Nobel Prize in Literature -- i.e. why Chinua Achebe never took the prize (though they're still holding...
View ArticleE.L.Konigsburg (1930-2013)
E.L.Konigsburg, best known for her classic children's novel, the Newbery Medal-winning From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, has passed away; see, for example, Shannon Maughan's...
View ArticleOral literature in ... Kenya
In the Sunday Nation Mbugua Mungai reports that From the bars to the dump sites, oral literature is alive in Kenya.
View ArticleThe Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced on Friday; lots of categories, none of the winners under review at the complete review .....
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