Literary Radar

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

Tales That Linger in Your Mind and Take up Residency in Your Soul | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 12/11/2021

Three riveting new novels and an emotionally devastating short-story collection.

 

Jane Austen’s House secures future with funding to restore roof | THE GUARDIAN | 01/11/2021

The novelist's home is set to be restored after funds and public donations.

 

He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 27/10/2021

After Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded with de Nobel Prize, he instantly gained a wider international audience.

 

 

He’s a poet and the FBI know it: how John Giorno’s Dial-a-Poem alarmed the Feds | THE GUARDIAN | 18/10/2021

The poet and visual artist imagined using the telephone as a medium of mass communication, in order to generate a new relationship between poet and audience.

 

The Myth of Oscar Wilde’s Martyrdom | THE NEW YORKER | 11/10/2021

Can history restore the full measure of Wilde's complexity?

 

Looking Back at Letters From a Revolution | THE NEW YORK TIMES | 08/10/2021

In a series of poems, Diane di Prima tracked the course of her own radicalism.