Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” | The New Yorker | 27/10/2019
Review of T. S. Eliot's career, the poet and literature critic who published the seminal manifesto "Tradition and the Individual Talent" for the 100th anniversary of its publication.
For Some Horror Writers, Nothing Is Scarier Than a Changing Planet | The New York Times | 19/10/2019
An article on climate change literature and its new scope for horror literature.
How to Write Hercule Poirot in 2019 | Vulture | 18/10/2019
The crime novelist Sophie Hannah is interviewed about Hercule Poirot resurection, Agatha Christie's elegant Belgian crime fiction detective by request of the Christie family.
Jung Chang: 'To be a writter was the most dangerous profession' |The Guardian| 13/10/2019
Jung Chang, the author of "Wild Swans", "Mao: The Unknown Story" and "Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" among others, talks about her books being banned China because of their political critics.
...“Why Should I Venerate?”: Walt Whitman at 200 |Los Angeles review of books| 06/10/2019
Review of "Why Should I Venerate" by Walt Whitman for its 200th birthday.
Victor Hugo’s Most Underappreciated Work Is This Lavish Four-Story House |Electricliterature| 26/09/2019
Hauteville House, the home Victor Hugo decorated during his exile in Guernsey, is the key to fully understanding his work.