Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Badenheim 1939; Katerina; The Story of a Life by Aharon Appelfeld review – survivors’ tales full of beauty and pain | THE GUARDIAN | 12/08/24
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...
From Circle to Square | LA REVIEW OF BOOKS | 11/08/24
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. ...
The Essential Shel Silverstein | NEW YORK TIMES | 10/08/24
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...
‘A beacon of brazenness and defiance’: Edna O’Brien remembered by Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín and more | THE GUARDIAN |
The acclaimed author of The Country Girls, which was burned in the market square of her home town, has died aged 93. Here, Irish...
No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review | THE GUARDIAN | 28/07/24
In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s
When Yuppies Ruled | THE NEW YORKER | 22/07/2024
Defining a social type is a way of defining an era. What can the time of the young urban professional tell us about our own?