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Setting aside the Harry Potter juggernaut (for which J.K. Rowling was awarded the people's choice Quills prize), some argue that this year was not a particularly strong year for new fiction. Still, critics generally responded enthusiastically to&nb...
Setting aside the Harry Potter juggernaut (for which J.K. Rowling was awarded the people's choice Quills prize), some argue that this year was not a particularly strong year for new fiction. Still, critics generally responded enthusiastically to Ian McEwan's Saturday, Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the Clown, Marilynn Robinson's Pulitizer-winning Gilead, and J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man. Ha Jin's War Trash, a gripping account of the experiences of a Chinese prisoner in an American POW camp in South Korea, was honored with the PEN/Faulkner Award. (Jin also won the award in 2000 for his beautiful -- but aptly named -- novel Waiting.) Book clubs are enjoying a resurgence, and not just because of Oprah. There are also some very good online book clubs. Impress your book club by reading the latest reviews and keeping up to date on the literary award contenders with these great feeds. Related Top 10 Sources: Philosophy | Fine Art | Classical Music | Cinema | Opera | Jazz
Massacre River by Rene Philoctete, a review from Powells.com by Chris Faatz.
FLIP -- the Festa Literaria Internacional de Paraty -- runs through 6 July, with an impressive list of participants that includes Cees Nooteboom, Pepetela, Pierre Bayard, and Tom Stoppard.
A.N.Wilson is still obsessing over Virgil's Aeneid, and now offers a column in The Telegraph comparing three recent translations.
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Guillermo Martinez's Regarding Roderer.
American Nerd: The Story of My People by Benjamin Nugent, a review from Washington Post Book World by A. J. Jacobs.
At hlo Jozsef J. Fekete profiles 'the Proteus of Hungarian literature', Szentkuthy Miklos (1908-1988), in Outprousting Proust.
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Danilo Kis' first novel, Mansarda, now available in English translation.
We were thrilled to come across a translation of Danilo Kis' first novel, but Mansarda could be a case study in how not to publish a book in translation.
Did Robert Graves steal from his mistress, Laura Riding Jackson? Mark Jacobs says yes: "Between 1926 and 1939, he was learning from her what she was doing and thinking," Dr Jacobs said. "He was taking her ideas, her research, he was simply shovelling it in to his own books.... She left her manuscript in Majorca. She later...
Atmostpheric Disturbances seems like the kind of book I would like. I avoided reading any reviews until I had a chance to read it, even the long piece by James Wood in the New Yorker a few weeks ago. I found the plot about doppelgangers interesting initially. Who doesn’t wonder who would notice if you [...]
