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12.21.17: A collection of Ayub Khawar’s poems shows evidence of translation as an exercise in damage control. link>> |
12.19.17: A new history of the IWW explains how the Wobblies were many things to many people across the globe. link>> |
12.12.17: Cassandra Nelson on Elizabeth Bishop and "the work of preservation." link>> |
12.11.17: A new biography of the brilliant, courageous, and iconoclastic Oriana Fallaci. link>> |
11.30.17: The latest book from historian Mark Mazower is a family memoir set during the Russian Revolution. link>> |
11.27.17: A pocket history and appreciation of Spanish sci-fi in the 21st century. link>> |
11.24.17: Gig Ryan reviews two poetry collections elegizing the ideals of home. link>> |
11.23.17: "Perhaps nothing gets more in the way of reading and writing as the raw shock of violence." link>> |
11.22.17: Jasanoff explores Conrad’s world "with the compass of a historian, the chart of a biographer, the navigational sextant of a fiction reader." link>> |
11.21.17: Volume III is "a kaleidoscopic collection of the juiciest Tamil pulp fiction." link>> |
11.15.17: "Jeet Thayil is arguably the last of the meaningful bridge figures in Indian letters." link>> |
11.14.17: "There is so much there that it is difficult to convey an idea of the scope of the poems"; Joe Green on Ben Mazer. link>> |
11.07.17: One of Jeet Thayil’s major achievements is his way of rendering irrelevant distinctions between fact and fiction. link>> |
11.03.17: Biography tracks the rags-to-riches evolution of Oriana Fallaci into a bombastic, chain-smoking author. link>> |
11.02.17: Anne Compton’s essays trace themes of ekphrasis, home, childhood, beauty, etc. link>> |
11.01.17: From the Kyivan Rus’ to the height of Soviet power, Lost Kingdom explains the Russian drive to expand. link>> |
10.27.17: Two recent comics with female protagonists help make the case that YA isn't only for young adult readers. link>> |
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Excerpts, Features
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12.19.17: "They remember and the island turns over new leaves"; a poem by Nick Panteli. link>> |
12.18.17: Clive James gives Martin Amis a drink and a smoke, to chat about Portnoy's Complaint, morality, and so on. link>> |
12.15.17: Two new works from Boston poet Erick Verran. link>> |
12.13.17: Vlad Savich gets philosophical with the actor and novelist David Tacium. link>> |
12.12.17: Useni Eugene Perkins, 85, is the most famous Chicago poet you've never heard of. link>> |
12.01.17: “The Go-Between”, an excerpt from a novel by actor and writer David Tacium. link>> |
11.27.17: "Poetry is late for meetings"; an interview with New Delhi's Medha Singh. link>> |
11.24.17: An interview with Columbia MFA grad Emily Skillings, about prompts, and dance, and teaching, and writing. link>> |
11.23.17: Steven Lewis sides with Ginsburg on the matter of making poetry transparent. link>> |
11.22.17: Meet Otis Kidwell Burger, aged 93, writer, sculptor, and literary salon host. link>> |
11.20.17: Mike Maggio talks poetry and process, polemics and ekphrasis, and the power of collaboration. link>> |
11.17.17: A performance by Moroccan slam poet Moniem Slameur, on the Maghrib in Past & Present podcast. link>> |
11.16.17: "Just know, wild eye, which of us is truly wild"; a new poem from Corey Howard." link>> |
11.15.17: This week's Smarty Pants podcast focuses on literature in translation. link>> |
11.14.17: Adriana Delgado talks with journalist-turned-novelist, Elizabeth Day. link>> |
11.13.17: The debut episode is now available of Bulaq, a podcast about contemporary writing from and about the Middle East and North Africa. link>> |
11.10.17: "The waves made her believe there was something bigger than herself"; a story by Joanna Valente. link>> |
11.09.17: " Kirkus has somehow managed to misapprehend both the nature of reviewing and the nature of books." link>> |
11.08.17: "The poets, and the crocodiles, were territorial to the extreme;" an interview. link>> |
11.07.17: A poem in Berfrois by Moroccan teacher, writer, and scholar, El Habib Louai. link>> |
11.06.17: "... byzantine caged substations"; a new poem from Rob Chalfen. link>> |
11.02.17: From the Fulcrum archives, Philip Nikolayev and Marc Vincenz chat about accessibility in contemporary poetry. link>> |
11.01.17: Can new fairy tales warn and ready us for the perils of the present day? link>> |
10.31.17: On Americanness and self-translation in the exile poetry of Joseph Brodsky. link>> |
10.27.17: A mountain poem by Meghan Lamb. link>> |
10.25.17: Anne Carson: ‘I do not believe in art as therapy’. link>> |
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New Books and
Literary News |
12.21.17: Congratulations to the young Nigerians who have won the inaugural Kreative Diadem writing contest. link>> |
12.20.17: Thanks to Dan Brown, 3,500 occult manuscripts to be made available online. link>> |
12.19.17: A petition to convert a literary landmark into a museum of literary Boston. link>> |
12.18.17: The famed manuscript library at St. Catherine monastery in Egypt has reopened. link>> |
12.15.17: Indie bookstores tell Electric Lit which books are most often shoplifted. link>> |
12.14.17: Public art and urban poetry transform the city of Douala, Cameroon. link>> |
12.13.17: Former Gawker employees are crowdsourcing to keep the site out of the hands of the man who shut it down. link>> |
12.12.17: Tapsalteerie seeks submissions for poetry pamphlets in Scots, Gaelic & English. link>> |
11.27.17: Librarians and authors petition UK Education Minister to preserve school libraries. link>> |
11.24.17: What does it mean for writers and scholars of African literature to be unaware of their literary past? link>> |
11.23.17: Alas, this enticingly instagrammable show-stopper in China is a Potemkin library. link>> |
11.22.17: An Istanbul University symposium remembers the Iranian poet Shahriar. link>> |
11.21.17: Sales for the smallest indie publishers in the UK are up 79% in the last year. link>> |
11.20.17: A dispatch from Boundless, a festival devoted to Indigenous and culturally diverse Australian writers. link>> |
11.17.17: Eminent Hindi poet and Jnanpith awardee Kunwar Narayan, 1927-2017. link>> |
11.16.17: Vidigal literary festival brings books and poetry to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. link>> |
11.15.17: Emi Mahmoud fled war in Darfur, now uses poetry to put a human face on crises many feel too remote to. link>> |
11.13.17: A terrifically credulous report highlights a publishing competition run by an amateur press in Hong Kong. link>> |
11.10.17: Celebrations and commemorations as Grolier Poetry Book Shop hits 90. link>> |
11.09.17: At Ron Slate's On the Seawall, eight poets recommend new books. link>> |
11.08.17: Against the outcry of scholars and cultural nationalists, estate auctions Yeats materials to private buyers. link>> |
11.06.17: Seattle, Washington, is the second US city to be named a UNESCO city of literature. link>> |
11.03.17: A Russian teacher faces new trial for poems in praise of the Ukraine. link>> |
11.02.17: Preeminent Chinese e-book publisher raises over a billion dollars in shares value. link>> |
10.31.17: Organizer intends the Ghana Writers Awards to be the ‘Ghanaian Pulitzers’. link>> |
10.30.17: Shanghai museum exhibit blends poetry with music, dance, and dino fossils. link>> |
10.26.17: Historian finds that children of Communist elites in the 1930s read Goethe, Kipling and Wilde, not Marx. link>> |
10.25.17: The Czech State Prize for Literature has been awarded to novelist Jáchym Topol. link>> |
10.24.17: The Ransom Center is now home to the Echenberg War Poetry Collection. link>> |
09.26.17: On the decline and recent new interest in China of translations of Russian lit. link>> |
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