Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
A Complex Family History in a Nation of Many Tongues | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 30/04/2023
Gina Apostol’s new novel, “La Tercera,” is about a writer and her ancestry, but its most profound preoccupation is language.
Helen Barolini, Chronicler of Italian American Women, Dies at 97 | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 20/04/2023
As a novelist, a poet and an editor, she sought to illuminate rarely told stories of her immigrant female forebears in a new land.
Your Guides to the World of Fairies and to the Multiverse | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 14/04/2023
New science-fiction and fantasy novels from Heather Fawcett, Moses Ose Utomi and M.R. Carey.
A Beauty Brand That Turns Self-Improvement Into a Nightmare | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 04/04/2023
In Ling Ling Huang’s debut, “Natural Beauty,” a woman discovers that there are horrors lurking beneath the surface of a glamorous company.
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.