Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
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
Rebecca Makkai Wishes More Novelists Would Write About People’s Jobs | THE NEW YORKER ! 16/02/2023
“Not a generically boring office job, but something terribly specific that we don’t normally get to hear about,” says the author, whose new book is “I Have Some Questions for You.” “I want to enjoy a novel and at the same time learn...
Loud Noises on the Western Front | THE NEW YORKER | 09/02/2023
A new adaptation of “All Quiet on the Western Front” dilutes the power of Erich Maria Remarque’s antiwar novel.