Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
John Burnside wins the 2023 David Cohen prize for amazing body of work | THE GUARDIAN | 05/11/2023
‘He casts a spell with language of great beauty, power, lyricism and truthfulness’ said judging chair Hermione Lee of the poet and novelist.
Nobel prize winner Jon Fosse: ‘It took years before I dared to write again’ | THE GUARDIAN | 28/10/2023
An interview with the Nobel in literatura prize winner.
The Stubborn Mysteries of Lou Reed | THE NEW YORKER | 16/10/2023
A new biography offers an inconclusive portrait of the rock-and-roll shape-shifter.
Louise Glück, Remembered by Writers | THE NEW YORKER | 12/10/2023
Great writers commemorate the Nobel-winning poet.
When a Novelist Carries On What Another Novelist Started | THE NEW YORKER | 02/10/2023
Elizabeth Hand’s “Haunting on the Hill” is an authorized follow-up to a Shirley Jackson classic. But haunting someone else’s house comes with perils as well as perks.
‘A painful absence all of the time’: the best descriptions of loneliness in literature | THE GUARDIAN | 30/09/2023
The last word, our series about emotions in books, focuses on depictions of isolation this month, from a memoir of grief to Sam Selvon’s Windrush chronicle.