Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Whitewashing the Great Depression | The Atlantic | 19/11/2020
How the preeminent photographic record of the period excluded people of color from the nation’s self-image
In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term
The most audacious thing about Barack Obama’s new memoir, “A Promised Land,” is the beaming portrait on its cover: There he is, the 44th president, looking so serenely confident that it’s as if the book weren’t arriving on the heels...
How Gender-Swapped Fairy Tales reveals misogyny in classic stories | Independent | 09/11/2020
How one book’s role reversals reveal the misogyny of our favourite stories. The compendium has flipped the genders of our childhood princes and princesses, a simple switch-up that makes the stereotypes embedded in our traditions...
Have you been using the pandemic to catch up on long classic novels? | The Guardian | 27/10/2020
Sales of War and Peace, Don Quixote and Middlemarch are booming. The appeal of a seriously long read has never been more alluring
Behind the Enigma by John Ferris review – inside Britain's most secret intelligence agency | The guardian | 21/10/2020
From codebreakers at Bletchley Park to the crisis surrounding whistleblower Edward Snowden … an authorised history of GCHQ.
Mario Puzo at 100: The Godfather author never met a real gangster, but his mafia melodrama remains timeless | The Independent | 15/10/2020
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