Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
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...
Author laments African nations' disparate literary success | EFE | 21/08/2019
Jose Eduardo Agualusa, one of Africa's most acclaimed contemporary authors, lamented the uneven literary success of countries on that continent and pointed to Nigerian letters as an example for other nations to follow.