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Items of note this quarter:
a birthday for Review Review
Across Antarctica
Occult mss digitized
NSFW sonnet query
Frankenstein at 200
Tajik poet vexes village
denying NY prisoners books
keep it up, Malawi poets
Doodle honors Shousha
Lily Cole vs Brontë acolytes
the best reader in London
papercraft bookcovers
support Dave's reviewing
men are fake poets
restoring books lost in Baghdad
"we are wasting our time"
can we trust Wolff's reporting
Fry reads Douglas Adams
the Black Mirror ur-episode
Sci Fi World translation issue
UK libraries going staffless
against facing books backwards
Scarriet's 2018 Poetry Hot 100
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06.05.18: 84K is "a grim … novel of exterminism, with a theory of change and a glimmer of hope in its centre." link>> |
06.01.18: "As well as being rigorous, After Man by Dougal Dixon manages to be fun." link>> |
05.30.18: Helen Vendler is "a critic rather than a scholar, a reader and writer more taken by texts than by context." link>> |
05.29.18: "Rachel Cusk’s trilogy isn’t commenting wryly on upper-middle-class values. It’s embodying them." link>> |
05.25.18: "If there are 50 stories by Trevor in front of you, there are 50 different robustly executed forms of narrative." link>> |
05.24.18: " David Yezzi’s poetry is contemporary in a subtle way... with references as up to date as the next moment’s tweet." link>> |
05.23.18: "Ondaatje’s latest novel, Warlight, is almost languorous in its narration, an approach that sometimes feels self-indulgent." link>> |
04.10.18: “Madeline Miller, contemporary re-weaver of classical tales, is back.” link>> |
04.09.18: Michael Dirda reviews a round-up of recent translations from classical antiquity. link>> |
04.04.18: “A Dead Man’s Diary,” based on Bulgakov’s unfinished novel, is “mesmerizing.” link>> |
04.03.18: Reading Chua Beng Huat, the question arises—Is Singapore a liberal democracy or a social democracy? link>> |
04.02.18: "A big, bold, brassy spectacular saga of the tectonic shifts in gay lives in Britain from 1940 to 2012." link>> |
03.30.18: "Bruno Schulz published just two books before the Gestapo shot him, but his surreal stories remain influential." link>> |
03.22.18: Sean Penn aggresses toward Trump, sneers toward #metoo, in first novel. link>> |
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Excerpts, Features
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06.12.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.11.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.08.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.07.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.06.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.05.18: A dossier of true stories from Arab American writers, about their lives, and the predicament of being Arab in America. link>> |
06.01.18: "Falstaff’s duplicitous notion of the truth seems to be shared by many powerful leaders." link>> |
05.31.18: "Inspiration is the name we give to a privileged kind of listening;" an interview with New Zealand's David Howard. link>> |
05.30.18: In Berlin, Ai Weiwei and Yang Lian connect through verse and a Chinese factory worker becomes a literary star. link>> |
05.26.18: An interview with Mat Johnson, essential for those trying to move from literary fiction to graphic novels and comics. link>> |
05.25.18: Erin Spampinato investigates the roots of the incel movement in our canon of sad white men's literature. link>> |
05.24.18: "It is therefore an interesting moment to find Mailer enshrined in the official US canon by the Library of America." link>> |
04.10.18: “Shepherd’s Watch,” an essay in The Clearing by farmer and writer by Melanie Viets. link>> |
04.03.18: "A revolution in the social order inevitably begins in language." link>> |
04.02.18: BT Hathaway addresses the crisis of punditry in a poem to Larry Summers. link>> |
03.29.18: The director of Egyptian Society for Science Fiction talks with ArabLit about the history and future of Egyptian sci-fi. link>> |
03.28.18: John Canaday talks about Critical Assembly: Poems of the Manhattan Project. link>> |
03.27.18: Nicholas Littman writes an essay on sugaring season, for The Hopper. link>> |
03.26.18: In letters, readers of The Atlantic debate the meaning of "The Road Not Taken." link>>
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03.23.18: Making sense of the structure and snubs of the Man Booker International list. link>> |
03.21.18: "Hawking was a poet, translating the scatter and flit, the endless summer and autumn, of the cosmos into language." link>> |
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New Books and
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06.01.18: The 2018 SFWA jury has chosen a vastly more diverse set of Nebula Award winners than in past years. link>> |
05.30.18: Stephen Mindich, longtime publisher of the Boston Phoenix, has passed away at the age of 74. link>> |
05.29.18: Hedge fund-backed company offers aspiring novelists a salary from £2,000 per month to write their novels. link>> |
05.25.18: Texas high school principal censors paper, bans all editorials and ousts award-winning adviser. link>> |
05.24.18: Between 2012-18, only 9% of almost 20,000 poems published in major UK venues were by poets of colour. link>> |
05.23.18: Otago University seizes, destroys copies of student mag depicting menstruation. link>> |
05.22.18: "A Tibetan Tried to Save His Language. China Handed Him 5 Years in Prison." link>> |
05.21.18: Following his cancer diagnosis in 2010, poet Franz Wright recorded hundreds of hours of audio. link>> |
04.06.18: Bareknuckle Poet is fed up with of the simple sentimentality of non-indigenous Australian poets. link>> |
04.05.18: R. L. Stine will now be teaching children how to write horror stories. link>> |
04.04.18: The New York Times reports on the Chinese govt.'s renewed repression of booksellers and publishers. link>> |
04.03.18: Aunt Agatha's Mystery Bookshop in Ann Arbor announces closing. link>> |
04.02.18: James Comey's book of recipes from former members of the Trump team to be titled Cooking with Chaos. link>> |
03.30.18: Novelist Anita Shreve, with deep roots in New England, passes away at 71. link>> |
03.27.18: The short list for the 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award has been released. link>> |
03.26.18: The Irish bookselling industry contributes €132 million to the national economy. link>> |
03.23.18: Data reported to the govt. equalities office reveal a huge gender pay gap in the UK publishing industry. link>> |
03.22.18: Book Riot's March round-up of forthcoming new books in translation. link>> |
03.21.18: The Paris Review, seeking a new editor, hopes to answer to both its editorial needs and the cultural moment. link>> |
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