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Items of note this quarter:
Give Nyarlathotep a chance
#KeepLARBFearless
The Spinoff's Top 20 of 2016
Dylan's speech in absentia
Defying epic gender tradition
Golden ink on black silk
Is the Web killing lit crit?
Seth Godin's bookshelf
Welcome, wikisonnet botlords
Scotland's book picks 2016
NYTimes 100 books of 2016
5 Slavic sci-fi picks
Short stories vending machine
Kate visits Geneseo
New Johnny Cash poems
Essay grading, post-Trump
AQR invokes Emma Lazarus
Lib arts helps cons
Gaelic MA online
Kit Marlow gets credit
Book buyers as snobs
Death of books, forestalled
Booklist: Modernist women
Aussie Peter Porter Prize
Meet the Grinder
A collective poem translation
Win a book a month for life
Sonnet Bake-off 2016
On books bought and not read
Spillman slams Ferrante outing
On the typeface Benguiat
Trump, book reporter
The Global Book Review
Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Mr. Harold J. Grump, à la Seuss
A librarian arrested
Ricks on Dylan's Nobel
Memoir of an SNL alum
Newtonville Books interviewed
This book's a gas
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12.16.16: A novel about India's present-day society and polity, straddling the "twilight zone between the speculative and the firmly realistic." link>> |
12.14.16: Rain Taxi reviews a nonfiction anthology of childhood retreats, cubbies, and other forms of "dream closet." link>> |
12.13.16: Column antho tells the story of Jack Jones and other Quaker vols in WWII China. link>> |
12.12.16: Megyn Kelly's riveting memoir tells of individual mettle, media dysfunction, and self-replicating platitudes. link>> |
12.09.16: "Cynthia Ozick’s latest collection of essays seems poised to take a stand about the value of literary critics." link>> |
12.07.16: The exhaustive report of a middle-aged reader who goes back to The Hardy Boys. link>> |
12.06.16: An "elegiac new book about the natural world and our slow and implacable destruction of it," reviewed. link>> |
12.05.16: "Friedman's great anti-gift is his ability to use many words when only a few are necessary." link>>
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12.01.16: A brief take on The Angel of History, a novel that in the course of one night moves from a childhood in an Egypt whorehouse to life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco. link>> |
11.30.16: On Irish writers who looked upon the Caribbean as a mirror image of Ireland. link>> |
11.28.16: 'Alexandre Trudeau is a well-informed guide to the New China, insofar as a "barbarian" can be well-informed.' link>> |
11.22.16: Round-up of boundary-breaking books that are diverse (but not about diversity). link>> |
11.21.16: A new history looks at the links between Noh theater and literary Modernism. link>> |
11.18.16: Malcolm Forbes reviews Juan Gabriel Vásquez's "taut, tantalizing" Reputations. link>> |
11.14.16: In her new book about war and its matériel technology, Mary Roach delivers "snark leavened with science." link>> |
11.10.16: New bio of Thomas De Quincey is "short on literary analysis and long on dish." link>> |
11.09.16: Uzbek Hamid Ismailov on the poetry of Soviet Russia, and the older poetic traditions of the Central Asian steppes. link>> |
11.03.16: "Thunder at the Gates remembers the black regiments of the Civil War." link>> |
11.02.16: " It's a memoir. It's a love story. It's a buried treasure tale. It's a philosophical tract. It's a group biography." link>> |
10.31.16: " The Angel of History holds on to the stories of the powerless against corporate, military and cultural erasures. Yet if a man holds on to every memory, he’ll go mad…" link>> |
10.26.16: A new history details "the people, their personalities, and their interactions" involved in the rise of ISIS. link>> |
10.19.16: Otosirieze Obi-Young on "Imperialism-in-Artistry", or, why Dylan's Nobel win is proof Adichie is right about Beyoncé. link>> |
10.17.16: It's a good day to look back at this 2004 review of Sir Christopher Ricks's book-length study of Bob Dylan as poet. link>> |
10.13.16: Graphic novelist Sarah Glidden documents a journalistic trip to Turkey, Syria, Iraq. link>> |
10.10.16: 'Childlike obliviousness of a dying Norwegian working class'; a new translation of poems by Håkan Sandell, reviewed by Micah Mattix. link>> |
10.03.16: Saleem Haddad's Guapa 'explores the dangers and dread of being gay in a country that forbids it.' link>> |
09.30.16: Rayyan Al-Shawaf reviews Shelter, the debut novel of MA writer Jung Yun. link>> |
09.27.16: Sorry Martian fans, this year's space-themed book turned movie is African-American history, not science fiction. link>> |
09.27.16: Quelle surprise; write-up of Sarkozy tell-all has a section titled "Worst Friends." link>> |
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Excerpts, Features
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12.20.16: A UC Merced interview with faculty member Vanesha Pravin, author of the award-winning collection Disorder. link>> |
12.19.16: A timely special collection of articles on Syria and the Left from Muftah. link>> |
12.16.16: Novelist Maria Smilios, writing ruminatively, on the lingering, closing, of New York's remaining bookstores. link>> |
12.15.16: Diana Senechal on listening to poetry in unfamiliar languages, hearing "cadences, repetitions, rhythms." link>> |
12.14.16: María Esther Vázquez recalls the eighteen years when Borges was director of the National Library. link>> |
12.12.16: To kick off the week,
we present a microfiction from up-and-coming Nigerian author Chukwuebuka Ibeh. link>> |
12.09.16: In short, this essayist believes book reviewers will survive, but lit theorists will be driven to extinction by AI. link>> |
12.08.16: Latin American writers at the Oaxaca International Book Fair express their bewilderment over election of Trump. link>> |
12.07.16: The future of the book industry is not print vs. ebooks but understanding when and how people want to read. link>> |
12.06.16: Amish Trivedi on contests and independent publishing. "Social capital alone will not sustain presses or put food on the table." link>> |
12.05.16: Let us begin the week by marveling at this video of an old book being restored to new usefulness. link>> |
12.02.16: Ello, the social media platform for "creators", has a conversation with conceptual artist Joseph Shaeffer. link>> |
12.01.16: Yes, experimental literary modernism informed by the folklore tradition does indeed exist on YouTube. From Open Culture, two video animations of short tales by Italo Calvino. link>> |
11.28.16: The Paris Review reprints a 1959 interview with Fidel Castro, discussing literature in his socialist country. link>> |
11.25.16: "As long as we use language we’ll find a away of making something beautiful or memorable from it;" an interview with Adam O'Riordan. link>> |
11.21.16: This essay in Asymptote examines book design across editions in translation. link>> |
11.16.16: Can we connect Bob Dylan's Nobel win to the extinction of pleasure reading? link>> |
11.15.16: Translation Tuesday returns! Enjoy "Shadow Puppets" by Wong Yoon Wah." link>> |
11.08.16: 'Lit crit taught me to scrub feelings out of my reading; a medieval mystic showed me how to put them back in.' link>> |
11.04.16: John Berger and Susan Sontag converse, in 1983. link>> |
11.02.16: Remembering Islandia, "simultaneously a fantasy of otherness and of America's pre-industrial simplicity." link>> |
10.31.16: Sven Birkerts, editor of Agni, on the continual discoveries of reviewing submissions. link>> |
10.27.16: Ilan Stavans on the precursors, beneficiaries, and impacts of "El Boom" on Latin American letters. link>> |
10.26.16: "Journey in Search of Indo-Islamic Papermaking Heritage;" video of a 2015 lecture at the Met in NYC. link>> |
10.25.16: Robert Casper explains his connection to a recent "Poetry, Publishing, and Race" panel at the Library of Congress. link>> |
10.24.16: The Guardian on Shirley Jackson: "queen of gothic horror claims her literary crown." link>> |
10.21.16: Bustle profiles Paul Beatty after he's named to the 2016 Man Booker shortlist. link>> |
10.19.16: From the Asymptote archives, Anita Raja on translation as a practice of acceptance. link>> |
10.17.16: A conversation with Connie Willis, award-winning writer of sci-fi screwball, and author of Crosstalk. link>> |
10.13.16: Sir Ricks affirms the justice of Bob Dylan's Nobel win. (He's been making this case for some time now.) link>> |
10.12.16: Aaron Sach asks, are there ways of making academic prose more stylish without sacrificing scholarly cred? link>> |
10.11.16: On the Faber blog, Francesca Kay considers how writers of fiction approach the books they are reading. link>> |
10.10.16: Nine fragments from Josué Guébo's collection addressing migration, shipwreck, hope, fear, loss. link>> |
10.07.16: Elisa Albert on writerly ambition and self-pride. "I am just so goddamn proud of her." link>> |
10.06.16: In 1920 Stuart Sherman asked, is there anything to be said for literary tradition? link>> |
10.05.16: O. T. Marodin asks, how should a poet make money? "This is a terrible question." link>> |
10.03.16: Louis MacNeice reads two poems for BBC's Three Score and Ten audio series. link>> |
09.27.16: Anca Pusca on the relevance of Benjamin’s oeuvre just as it is entering the public domain in a digital age. link>> |
09.26.16: Tony Tulathimutte on robot poetry, machine stylistics, and other notes on the impending end of writing. link>> |
09.23.16: Submissions tips from Shearsman, e.g. "sincerity of expression does not necessarily make for good poetry." link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
12.20.16: Kerala novelist arrested for insulting national anthem begins hunger strike. link>> |
12.19.16: Intrigue in the world of antiquarian tomes as Feds throw book at bogus bookbinder. link>> |
12.16.16: German research institutions unite to pressure Elsevier journals division. link>> |
12.15.16: According to the South Korean's biggest bookstore, sales of Korean-language poetry this year are up 505%. link>> |
12.14.16: Ilana Masad thinks it's the small independent publishers who are doing the heavy lifting to find new talent. link>> |
12.13.16: So, how many non-white writers are published in Australia each year? Natalie Kon-yu on the Diversity Count. link>> |
12.12.16: Adam Kirsch bids farewell to Obama, our Writer-in-Chief stepping down to make way for a barely literate POTUS. link>> |
12.09.16: Despite threat to press and publisher freedom, chairman of the Tanzania Editors Forum tells journos not to question but to follow the new media law. link>> |
12.08.16: From the bilingual Black Herald Press, The Return to Silence and Other Poetical Essays by Paul Stubbs. link>> |
12.07.16: NYTimes on strange gaps in Turkey's crackdown on "treason": "Some Turkish authors who are not in prison may well be wondering why not." link>> |
12.05.16: The team at Book Culture has compiled a reading list for improving understanding of Trumpism and related ills. link>> |
12.02.16: The Chronicle profiles the 20- and 30-something intellectuals whose critical journalism and little magazines are gaining influence. link>> |
11.29.16: "One cannot be too careful not to think of it." Quiet thoughts of C. S. Lewis on the anniversary of his death. link>> |
11.28.16: His writers tried, but alas, liberals don't "take the bait" of fake news. link>> |
11.25.16: Book from The Babadook now available in the real world. "You can't get rid of the Trump Babadook." Sad! link>> |
11.24.16: "I don’t call my poetry activist; I call it active." Talking youth poetry in Uganda. link>> |
11.23.16: Petrarch's Canzoniere newly available in Catalan. link>> |
11.22.16: Will the 2016 Kuwait Intl. Book Fair mark a turning point against censorship? link>> |
11.21.16: China makes a play to displace Western cultural exports in the African market. link>> |
11.18.16: "You could think of this book as a prediction, not necessarily of Trump himself, but the Trump phenomenon." link>> |
11.17.16: Women are winning top literary prizes more often; the gender gap is still huge. link>> |
11.16.16: How First Lady Eliza Reid, a Canadian, is working to champion Iceland writing. link>> |
11.15.16: Next time you visit Hanoi, make sure to stop by their new "book street." link>> |
11.10.16: Disseminating Urdu and Hindu poetry via swag. link>> |
11.09.16: The Goldsmiths prize for books goes to an Irish novel made of a single sentence. link>> |
11.07.16: Writers join protests against UK library closures. link>> |
11.04.16: Is Pakistan ostracized by the global literati? link>> |
10.26.16: Michael Basinski, curator of Poetry Collection, to retire after 32 years with U of Buffalo. link>> |
10.25.16: Nova Scotia publishers get a grant and op-ed offers silver-lining reading of the state of the print book industry. link>> |
10.21.16: Released this week, Social Medium: Artists Writing, 2000–2015, a sourcebook from Paper Monument. link>> |
10.20.16: Stevie Emilia reports on the Jakarta delegation to the Frankurt Book Fair. link>> |
10.19.16: New hirings & firings as Condé Nast restructures. link>> |
10.13.16: Reading Nicotine as an indictment of fake shamans, bunk idealism, and the unfortunate influence of Franzen. link>> |
10.12.16: New T. S. Eliot site from Faber & Faber is 'aimed at a wider audience, to show the remarkable breadth of what he did.' link>> |
10.11.16: Turkish Cypriot literary texts added to syllabus in Greek Cyprus high schools as a way to promote a "peace culture. link>> |
10.10.16: Let me be the first to welcome our new poetry-writing AI overlords. link>> |
10.06.16: A profile of the owners of Symposium Books in Providence, Rhode Island. link>> |
10.05.16: Attempts fail to replicate study that suggested literary fiction boosts cognition. link>> |
10.03.16: Always check your shelves! Thomas Becket's personal book of psalms found in Cambridge library. link>> |
09.30.16: Do the Mutahi Prize results show Kenyan literature to be in a sorry state? link>> |
09.29.16: "They clearly have street cred." Glynn Young reports from a talk with Eliot poetry vol editors McCue and Ricks at the British Library. link>> |
09.28.16: The ALSCW announces the launch of their revamped Literary Matters periodical. link>> |
09.27.16: The Guardian memorializes Bernard Bergonzi: poet, literary critic and professor of English at Warwick. link>> |
09.26.16: On Ricks and the Battles at BU: The closing of his Editorial Institute is a small, but real, loss for our battered res publica, our City of Words." link>> |
09.23.16: Members of India's creative community write: 'We are anguished by the suffering our Kashmiri brothers, sisters, children are undergoing.' link>> |
09.22.16: Aimee Levitt on Sonali Dev, the Indian-American romance writer ascending to stardom while helping to diversify a traditionally monochromatic genre. link>> |
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