Literary Radar

Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.

The Books Briefing: How to Read a Classic Today | The Atlantic | 10/07/2020

To Kill a Mockingbird's legacy is far from the only one readers must reckon with. 

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Charles Dickens wrote no fairytale endings – or did he? | The Guardian | 23/06/2020

The great writer's final complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, could be described as a typical Dickens fairytale - if only there were such a thing. 

 

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Author of ‘The Shadow of the Wind,’ Dies at 55 | The New York Times | 20/06/2020

Writer of one of the most successful Spanish novels ever published.

 

Literature and music are part of me | CCCB Lab | 03/06/2020

Singer-songwriter Julieta Venegas reflects on the relationship between music, literature and autofiction. 

 

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Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson on an Unpublished Story from the Author’s Archive | The New Yorker | 01/06/2020

A conversation with Seán Hemingway. 

 

Look, don't touch: what great literature can teach us about love with no contact | The Guardian | 22/05/2020

With our increased physical distance from each other, novels about forbidden touch and longing are more seductive than ever. 

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