Literary Radar

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

‘I always secretly wonder which of us is the real artist’: Sally Rooney in conversation with Patricia Lockwood | THE GUARDIAN | 04/06/2022

The novelists discuss using real life in fiction, email style, and the art of writing sex scenes

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The big idea: have we been getting sleep all wrong? | THE GUARDIAN | 23/05/20222

How Edgar Allan Poe and Thomas Edison represented humanity's relationship with sleep.

 

The stories that reveal the soul of Ukraine | BBC | 21/05/2022

The history of Ukrainian literatura reflects the country's tragic conflicts.

 

Social Media Dis-rupters | THE NEW YORKER | 15/05/2022
Pulitzer Prizes 2022: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 08/05/2022

Joshua Cohen's won the fiction prize, and the Times reporter Andrea Elliot won the general nonfiction award.

 

A Ukrainian Novel Looks Between the Lines of War | THE NEW YORKER | 18/04/2022

Andrey Kurkov writes about the ordinary business of being human in wartime.