Literary Radar

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

How Well Do You Know Modern Variations of “A Christmas Carol”? | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 23/12/2022

Great adaptations of the typical Christmas novel.

Title Search: Can You Find the 14 Y.A. Novels Hidden in This Text? | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 17/12/2022

The titles of 14 popular young-adult novels are hidden here in one text of page.

Ice, Ice baby | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 06/12/2022

Fred Hogge’s “Of Ice and Men” is a surprisingly loose history of frozen water.

After the Collapse of Civilization, a Return to Nature | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 03/12/2022

Lily Brooks-Dalton begins her novel “The Light Pirate” with an apocalypse; what follows is something like peace.

Comarc McCarthy's Unsettling Dream of a Novel | THE NEW YORK TIMES |

“Stella Maris” is the second of McCarthy’s two new books about grief, math and the nature of knowledge.

They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey review - a New York story of ballet and betrayal | THE GUARDIAN | 20/11/2022

For Carlisle Martin, a dance-obsessed girl growing up with her mother in Ohio, an annual fortnight with her father and his boyfriend in their Greenwich Village home exuded impossible glamour.