Literary Radar

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

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.

 

He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 16/04/2022

Just as Vladimir Sorokin says, Russian writers need to fight back in a semantic war on truth.

 

Christian Wiman Reads Patrizia Cavalli | THE NEW YORKER | 06/04/2022
Sebastian Barry: ‘I’m still not over Oliver Twist’ | THE GUARDIAN | 01/04/2022

The writer on growing up with Puffin boos, his changing attitude to Conrad, and the punk sensibility of Elizabeth Bowen.

 

A Violinist Rethinks Her Devotion to Music, With Emotion and Erudition | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 27/03/2022

In 'Uncommon Measure', Natalie Hodges writes about the years of her young life spent in classical music.