Literary Radar

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

How bookshops are helping with isolation | BBC | 23/03/2020

As more countries go into lockdown, bookshops around the world are having tot hink of creative ways to serve their customers and communities.

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World Poetry Day: 28 of the most powerful poetry lines ever written | Independent | 21/03/2020

Featuring selected works from the likes of TS Eliot, Pablo Neruda, Margaret Atwood, Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen

 

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How to tell other people's stories | BBC | 11/03/2020

Celebrated authors who are creating powerful 'imaginative ventriloquism'. 

 

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Need cheering up right now? Try reading a romance novel | The Guardian | 09/03/2020

Bestseller Milly Johnson calls the genre 'aloe vera on anxious lives'. The Guardian publishes a compilation of interesting titles in that sense. 

 

A Book List of Women Standing Up Around the World | New York Public Library | 6/03/2020

A book list of women standing up around the world.

Peeking Into the World of Rare Books | The New York Times | 5/03/2020

We discover the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, the world's premier gathering of buyers, sellers and lovers of rare book, held every March at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.  

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