Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
How Poetry Can Guide Us Through Trauma | The Atlantic | 01/08/2020
A former U.S. poet laureate's new memoir reflects on the power of storytelling to help us grieve - and offers lessons for surviving the cataclysms of the present.
What If You Could Just Program a Robot To Write a Novel? | The New York Times | 31/07/2020
Imagining all the reasons an automaton might not be writing the next Great American Novel.
The best early novels you’ve never heard of | BBC Culture | 16/07/2020
Experts from around the globe talk about their favourite underrated 19th-Century novels.
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The Books Briefing: How to Read a Classic Today | The Atlantic | 10/07/2020
To Kill a Mockingbird's legacy is far from the only one readers must reckon with.
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Charles Dickens wrote no fairytale endings – or did he? | The Guardian | 23/06/2020
The great writer's final complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, could be described as a typical Dickens fairytale - if only there were such a thing.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Author of ‘The Shadow of the Wind,’ Dies at 55 | The New York Times | 20/06/2020
Writer of one of the most successful Spanish novels ever published.