Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
For This Brooklyn Family, Myth and Reality Are One and the Same | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 28/03/2023
In Soraya Palmer’s debut novel, “The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts,” two sisters find solace and salvation through enduring Black diasporic tales.
A Time-Travel Novel Whose Thrills Go Beyond the Speculative | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 21/03/2023
In Jinwoo Chong’s debut novel, “Flux,” a time-warping discovery impacts the lives of three people coping with personal and systemic traumas.
The Novelist Watching Us Work | THE NEW YORKER | 13/03/2023
For more than twenty years, Maylis de Kerangal has been writing strange, singular books that turn the worlds of our jobs into art.
Can You Find These 13 Hidden Novels From the 1980s? | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 11/03/2023
It was a big, bold decade in many times - but how many significant and award-winning books published in the '80s do you recognize?
The Author Who Brought the Montessori Method to Life in Her Fiction | THE NEW YORKER | 27/02/2023
Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s novels took family life and childhood development seriously, glorying in the daily accumulation of small insights and struggles for mastery
The other blockbuster Royals Memoir | THE NEW YORKER | 25/02/2023
Before there was "Spare", there was "The Heart Has Its Reasons" (1956), by Wallis Simpson