Literary Radar

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

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn’t Mean You Should, Too | Literary Hub | 09/09/2019

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor.

10 Books I Can’t Get Out of My Head | Vulture | 06/09/2019

'Read Like the Wind' is a new Vulture space for discovering books and other reading. Molly Young will recommend new books, old books, articles, podcasts and other deployments of language.

The best books of the year so far: 2019 | BBC | 02/09/2019

From a study of sexuality to a wry satire, it’s been a great year for books. Lindsay Baker rounds up BBC Culture’s top picks, including Three Women, Phantoms and Nickel Boys.

Margaret Atwood: "White supremacy is always bubbling away in any country" | Independent | 07/09/2019

Ahead of the release of new book The Testaments, the beloved author tells Alexandra Alter how she navigated writing a follow-up to her dystopian 1985 novel in the wake of its successful TV adaptation.

Can You Write a Novel as a Group? | The New Yorker | 30/08/2019

The stories of three fiction-writing collectives, on three different continents. The notion that novelists should be solitary creators has long been deeply ingrained, but the success of the Alices, the Helenas, and Wu Ming...

Stephen King: "I have outlived most of my critics. It gives me great pleasure" | The Guardian | 07/09/2019

Born in Maine in 1947, Stephen King wrote his first published novel, Carrie, in 1974 and has spent the subsequent half-century documenting the monsters and heroes of small-town America. His rogues’ gallery of characters...