Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
‘Vanguard’ Spotlights the Black Women Who Fought for the Vote I New York Times I 01/09/2020
As Americans mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, which states that suffrage can’t be denied “on account of sex”, scholars have already shown how this history is in fact more vexed and exclusionary than the popular narrative...
Who was Alexandre Dumas? Google Doodle celebrates author of The Three Musketeers I Independent I 28/08/2020
To mark the anniversary of the publication of the first instalment of The Count of Monte Cristo (or: Le Comte de Monte Cristo), Google will include an visual representation of the...
Corporate America Agrees Black Lives Matter. What Comes Next? I New York Times I 23/08/2020
In DealBook forum, journalists took stock of how much the country’s most powerful companies are backing up statements against systemic racism.
Surprising secrets of writers’ first book drafts | BBC Culture | 19/08/2020
What is revealed by the early manuscripts of classic novels?
I Exchanged Notes With Elena Ferrante. Sort of. | The New York Times | 14/08/2020
"The process of publishing an excerpt from the author's new novel was just as mysterious as the writer herself".
What can we learn from Sense and Sensibility during coronavirus? | Independent | 31/07/2020
Enduring a second lockdown in Melbourne, Judith Armstrong turned to Jane Austen's masterpiece for escape, only to find that it threw new light on life under Covid-19.