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Items of note this quarter:
Laureates support Iris Canada
HP and the triumph of fandom
The why of submitting poems
Tiny worlds in glass
Ode to Marge Simpson
Innumerable thank-yous
On masterpieces w/o masters
Five books about video gaming
Do you know all the words?
Eclectic RPG books on sale
Paperback cover remixes
Bloch on wish-landscapes
On the Great Derangement
Book notes from the Book Barn
Atwood BookTour Comix
William Gibson interview
Poster poems of fear
Why Grandpa translated Hitler
How Baldwin trolled the FBI
WLT free book give-away
On Auden at work
Perks of being a lit major
Mag to publish AI-only poetry
Publishers' hopes for pot books
GuyInYourMFA critiques Trump
The 18-miles-of-books test
Unafraid of the Internet
Temer's presidencial poetasting
€2k experimental poetry prize
A-Holes: A Type Book
NewPoetry's poënts system
A Saddam novella in English
Justin Croft ephemerals sale
Short film Motionpoems
Lerner, virgule, virga, vapor
Report of a poet PhD plagiarist
James Frey-ish in Zambia
Secret library apartments
On Bloom's ruling passion
Grossman witch book at Wink
The raw, primitive essence
Did Butler predict Trump?
AI sonnets are fooling no one
#SumitranandanPant trending
Poetry and music, bedmates
Pop favorites meet the Bard
Shakespeare on reefer
Ancient Greek cicada poems
Words in a galaxy far away
"Don't let it get too chichi"
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09.08.16: A professional book critic on what she learns from the readers posting amateur reviews to Amazon and Goodreads. link>> |
08.18.16: Daniel Hahn reviews William Egginton's new biography of Cervantes, author of the first modern novel. link>> |
08.09.16: Gavin Parkinson wants to bring attention to Surrealism’s link to sci-fi and to comics. link>> |
08.01.16: "We ought not to underrate its emotional appeal." Orwell's 1940 review, terse and timely still, of Mein Kampf. link>> |
07.29.16: The spectre of Darwish lingers in Israel, admonishing, preserving memory. link>> |
07.28.16: Throwback Thursday! Dwight Macdonald's 1952 slam of the wise, whimsical and witless Great Books series. link>> |
07.14.16: Peter Brown reiews four recent publications which refract the glow of Byzantium. link>> |
07.13.16: LARB reviews a collection by Christos Ikonomou, of short stories set in the working-class streets of Piraeus, Greece. link>> |
07.12.16: Shaping up to be this summer's hit beach read, a new supernatural noir from filmmaker Neil Jordan. link>> |
07.08.16: Sassan Tabatabai reviews a critical edition and publication history of FitzGerald's trans. of Khayyam's Rubaiyat. read>> |
07.07.16: Mangalesh Dabral’s new collection is "colloquial without being regional, direct without being didactic." link>> |
07.01.16: "The greatest character in her books is Mary Roach herself." Grunt, reviewed. link>> |
06.24.16: "Cynicism and hope jostle for position in Dorthe Nors' new pair of novellas." link>> |
06.22.16: "Showers of Stars from the Universal Feminine"; Paul Blumer on Naomi Wolf. read>> |
06.21.16: The authors ask if it is time to replace traditional police forces with "alternative ways of fostering safety." link>> |
06.20.16: A Stalinst-era novella (trans. Alex Zucker) joins the Czech literary canon. link>> |
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Excerpts, Features
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09.21.16: “I called you tiger lily . . . but you are leche de tigre;” a poem by Gwendolyn Garcia. link>> |
08.25.16: “and sure in language strange”; a new poem by Sassan Tabatabai. link>> |
08.15.16: Five years later, Michael Anania's open letter concerning the evaluation in higher ed of creative writing publications still seems acutely relevant. link>> |
08.12.16: An interview with the founders of Transit Books, on the power of literary translation to bridge cultural divides. link>> |
08.05.16: Anjum Hasan, beginning with and returning to Mahasweta Devi, dwells on literature in the age of disappointment. link>> |
08.04.16: A conversation with Gisa Klönne, one of Germany's most famous crime writers. link>> |
08.03.16: Sample a chapter from forthcoming fantasy novel Labyrinth Lost, a modern bruja's journey to find her family. link>> |
08.02.16: A spontaneous roundtable on François Luong's FB wall, discussing the stigma against self-publishing. link>> |
07.28.16: John Keene on the re-queering history and finding lost voices in American fiction. link>> |
07.27.16: Michael Orthofer on how US books are overrated, disappointment with lit studies in college, and much more. link>> |
07.26.16:
Closed cultures, rigid teaching? Rhea Dhanbhoora assesses possible factors in poetry's decline in India. link>> |
07.21.16: Young Kashmiri poet Inshah Malik dedicates twenty poems to the slain. link>> |
07.20.16: "Critique comes from below": Rita Felski on the hermeneutics of suspicion. link>> |
07.14.16: Sci-fi editors and writers discuss why dystopias and anti-utopias remain popular. link>> |
07.11.16: 132 years later, James Morgan Hart's recommendations for the college course in English are not entirely obsolete. read>> |
07.07.16: Michael Robbins in defense of book collecting. link>> |
07.05.16: A reprint of Bliss Carman's 1904 essay, "The Purpose of Poetry." read>> |
07.04.16: Ed Simons seeks out the authors of American epics, from Bradstreet to Rankine. link>> |
07.01.16: Rowe and Simonds in dialogue, reviewing two recent books by Ben Mazer. read >> |
06.30.16: Tom Ley on the vagueness of male confessions in the modern essay. link>> |
06.27.16: From the New Criterion archives, Roger Kimball reviews Jacques Barzun. link>> |
06.24.16: A brief literary cultural history of the mimeo. link>> |
06.23.16: A new genre in Chinese writing. "' Mohuan' is 'magical unreal,' and ' chaohuan' is 'surpassing the unreal.'" link>> |
06.22.16: Josephine Livingstone on the eerie power of the medieval Pearl poem. link>> |
06.20.16: Two hundred years ago, Mary Shelley spent a night telling ghost stories. link>> |
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New Books and
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08.16.16: How some authors are blending methods from traditional and self-publishing to get their work to readers. link>> |
08.15.16: How to ban a book in India; or, the ongoing case of Perumal Murugan. link>> |
08.10.16: Few surprises in a list of recent top-sellers in India in the fantasy genre. link>> |
08.08.16: Marcus Books to reopen in San Francisco. link>> |
08.05.16: Historians, novelists, poets, translators, and of course journos, at Journalism Week, in Bogotá August 8-12. link>> |
08.02.16: The Singapore Literature Festival in NYC returns for its second year. link>> |
08.01.16:
A review of Ghachar Ghochar, a novella about the disappearance of middle class values as a family embraces the nonsense of wealth. link>> |
07.29.16: A book on the way we die now; one which resists tying up those loose ends. link>> |
07.26.16: Preparations underway for Soweto's first literary festival, 19-21 August. link>> |
07.25.16: Stanford scholar finds diverse views of Islam in the modern poetry of Iran. link>> |
07.22.16: For summer reading, see Derek Miller's list of the top 10 books about Iraq. link>> |
07.21.16: Hungarian Literature Online on Péter Esterházy, who passed away last Thurs. link>> |
07.19.16: Making Sense of the Brexit Crisis, free from Verso, featuring writers airing thoughts on the EU referendum. link>> |
07.15.16: Only two weeks left to see this London exhibit of magician John Dee's library. link>> |
07.14.16: Literary figures call for release of Arab-Israeli poet charged With incitement. link>> |
07.13.16: Through Thursday, a poetry summit in Dakar, Senegal, hosted by the International House of Poetry, Africa. link>> |
07.08.16: There's a crowd at "Right Now", Public Pool’s real-time platform for poets to respond to crisis as it happens. link>> |
07.05.16: The Guardian reports on how Brexit might impact book sales and lit culture. link>> |
07.01.16: The TLS: "Sir Geoffrey Hill, one of England’s few indisputably major post-war poets, has died." link>> |
06.30.16: New edition of Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Brand , in verse translation by Geoffrey Hill. link>> |
06.28.16: What will become of the birthplace of playwright George Bernard Shaw? link>> |
06.24.16: First translation of the Qur'an into Russian unveiled; the first by a Shia scholar. link>> |
06.22.16: RIP Gregory Rabassa, translator of Cortázar, García Márquez, and others. link>> |
06.21.16: New smartphone app to create location-based narratives built from series of fictional short stories. link>> |
06.20.16: New program to give Maltese literature its due. link>>
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