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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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Reviews and
Criticism
06.08.18: Todd Shimoda reviews In Black and White by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, a previously untranslated novel. link>>
06.07.18: In The Charles River Journal, Fred Marchant considers Strisik's The Mistress and Ritvo's Four Reincarnations. link>>
06.06.18: Joyce y las gallinas is "a tightly-stitched contemporary Catalan Dubliners." link>>
06.05.18: 84K is "a grim … novel of exterminism, with a theory of change and a glimmer of hope in its centre." link>>
06.04.18: "I’d be perfectly happy if Laird Barron only gave us Isaiah Coleridge novels for the rest of his career." link>>
06.01.18: "As well as being rigorous, After Man by Dougal Dixon manages to be fun." link>>
05.31.18: "Fans of True Detective will enjoy the inflection of cosmic horror in this tale by one of its best authors." link>>
05.31.18: "Fans of True Detective will enjoy the inflection of cosmic horror in this tale by one of its best authors." 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>>
05.28.18: In All Rights Reserved, the super-rich have claimed ownership over every expressive word and gesture. 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>>
05.22.18: Paul Rowe reviews Ben Mazer’s February Poems and December Poems in Moonchild Magazine. link>>
04.11.18: Reviewer Evan Kindley on Ezra Pound, right-wing politics, and racism as evidence of mental disease. 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>>
04.06.18: David Lewis prefers to call his review of City of Night “an amateur essay (that sounds better than book report).” link>>
04.05.18: “The politics of meaning well never manages to look beyond its own naïveté.” 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>>
03.29.18: For fans of alt-history mystery, Memento Mori is a crime novel set in Roman times. link>>
03.28.18: The characters in Sadness Is a White Bird offer "a hint of hope for the remaking of Jewish-Arab relations." link>>
03.27.18: In Kateri Lanthier's Siren, "love is unreliable, fleeting, even false." link>>
03.26.18: Gerard Dawe reviews Thom Gunn's Selected Poems for the Dublin Review of Books. link>>
03.23.18: The Valmiki Ramayana establishes a supremacy of poetic truth over historical truth. link>>
03.22.18: Sean Penn aggresses toward Trump, sneers toward #metoo, in first novel. link>>
03.21.18: Catherine Dossett closely reads a few photos from August Sander's People of the Twentieth Century. link>>
03.20.18: A review of the timely volume Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America, edited by Cass R. Sunstein. link>>
Excerpts, Features
and Interviews
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>>
06.04.18: David Trinidad has twenty questions for Plath scholar Peter K. Steinberg. 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>>
05.29.18: Talking with Alberto Salcedo Ramos about his Le Prix du Livre du Réel prize-winning book El oro y la oscuridad. link>>
05.28.18: An interview with, and poetry from, writer and ALS advocate Eric Valor. 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>>
05.23.18: “Dainty, subservient; Singaporean women aren’t like that;” Rosie Milne talks to Sharlene Teo. link>>
05.22.18: Lisa Marie Basile dishes on the details of writing and getting a book deal for her new nonfiction book. link>>
04.11.18: “No one foresaw/ the Grand Banks barren”; a new poem by Abigail Adams Elias warns of ecological crisis. link>>
04.10.18: “Shepherd’s Watch,” an essay in The Clearing by farmer and writer by Melanie Viets. link>>
04.09.18: Why John Scalzi chose not to know, and not to seek to know, the gender of his new novel's protagonist. link>>
04.06.18: How to celebrate a literary landmark's 300th birthday: with books, or burritos? link>>
04.06.18: Welcome to Kosti's Last Sunday Bookstore, operated by the Earl of Wordship. link>>
04.05.18: Welcome to Kosti's Last Sunday Bookstore, operated by the Earl of Wordship. link>>
04.04.18: Daniel A. Olivas' 2015 interview with Luis Alberto Urrea regarding his collection, The Tijuana Book of the Dead. 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>>
03.30.18: The Attic Sessions video podcast interviews Declan Meade, editor of The Stinging Fly. 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>>

03.23.18: Making sense of the structure and snubs of the Man Booker International list. link>>
03.22.18: Xandria Phillips, talking with VIDA, wants us "to move away from pedestalling relatability in poetry." link>>
03.21.18: "Hawking was a poet, translating the scatter and flit, the endless summer and autumn, of the cosmos into language." link>>
03.20.18: Gerður Kristný on how reading flourishes in Iceland despite the swell of tech. link>>
New Books and
Literary News
06.05.18: Winners of the 11th annual Best Translated Book Awards announced at the New York Rights Fair. link>>
06.04.18: Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan has founded a Poetry Academy at the Thomas Halsey Homestead in the Hamptons. link>>
06.01.18: The 2018 SFWA jury has chosen a vastly more diverse set of Nebula Award winners than in past years. link>>
05.31.18: Virgilio López Lemus has been awarded the Rafael Alberti Prize by the International Poetry Festival of Havana. link>>
05.31.18: Virgilio López Lemus has been awarded the Rafael Alberti Prize by the International Poetry Festival of Havana. 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>>
05.28.18: Asian Age profiles Indrajit Ghosal, the founder of Poetry Darbar. 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>>
04.11.18: The Longleaf Review explains their pledge to VIDA’s #saferLIT campaign. link>>
04.10.18: Neil McCarthy joins the crowd reporting favorably on The Amoeba Game. link>>
04.09.18: Proselytizers are filling Little Free Libraries with unwanted religious litter. 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>>
03.29.18: Upper Rubber Boot Books is kickstarting new feminist anthologies of dark fiction. link>>
03.28.18: Read an excerpt from Terry Bell's A Hat, A Kayak and Dreams of Dar at the African Books Collective. 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>>
03.20.18: Boston University hosts a conference for aspiring student editors and publishers. link>>

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