Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Memory and trauma go hand in hand in these two novels and a memoir by the late Israeli writer, who shows that hope can be worse than despair. God is in the sky,” the young Aharon Appelfeld’s grandfather told him, “and there is...
Benjamin Nathans revisits the 1968 suppression of the Prague Spring from the perspective of the Soviet dissident movement. WHETHER UNDER socialism or capitalism, civil rights inscribed in constitutions don’t implement themselves. ...
He was irreverent, absurdist and ahead of his time. Here’s the best of the best by the groovy pied piper who made poetry fun. If you were lucky enough to be read to as a kid, you probably found yourself face to face with Shel...
The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish...