Literary Radar

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

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Ernest Hemingway’s Grandson on an Unpublished Story from the Author’s Archive | The New Yorker | 01/06/2020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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This Is No Time to Read Alone | The New York times | 20/05/2020

In lockdown and through our screens, we're reminded of all that's special and strange about group reading: a solitary, private act made public. 

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What We Can Learn About the Pandemic from “The Plague” | Electric Lit | 14/05/2020

Albert Camus diagnosed society's disease in 1947, and it's much bigger than one virus. 

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Richard Ford: 'I didn't finish a book until I was 19 | The Guardian | 9/05/2020

The Pulitzer prize winner on the freedom that comes with age, how he reinvented his writing life and overcoming childhood dyslexia. 

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