Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Audiobooks, the rise and rise of the books you don't read | BBC | 6/01/2020
More creative and popular than ever before. Reflection whether current Audiobooks are an art form on their own right.
Writing a Book Is a Solitary Endeavor. Publishing One Is a Group Effort. | The New York Times | 2/01/2020
An interview with Andy Wards, Charles Duhigg's publisher at Random House, on publishing a writer's work.
A romance novelist spoke out about racism. An uproar ensued | The guardian | 31/12/2019
The romance's industry largest trade group decided to punish Courtney Mila for publicly criticising passages in Kathryn Lynn Davis's book "Somewhere Lies the Moon", prompting a reversal, fierce debate and resignation.
Dostoyevsky Misprisioned: “The House of the Dead” and American Prison Literature | Los Angeles Review of Books | 23/12/2019
Analysis of the uncertain origin of one of the best-known quotes from the Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
The history of giving books as gifts at Christmas | Independent | 20/12/2019
Independent analyzes the bandages of the publishing world in the months before Christmas.
Little Women Was Always Big | Vulture | 10/12/2019
A review of Little woman's success: from books to movies. Over a century and a half of "all of these inappropiates emotions for young women to have".