Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Rediscovered classics: the best books based on myths | The Guardian | 17/06/2019
Let's analyze how authors have always used stories from the past as a way to view the present, from the Iliad to Faust.
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How indie bookshops are fighting back | The Guardian | 16/06/2019
Independent bookshops are thriving because they understand readers' tastes better than an Amazon algorithm.
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A Glimpse of Virginia Woolf’s Original Manuscript for ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ | The New York Times | 14/06/2019
Before Woolf settled on the unique perspective for her modernist masterpiece, she had a more expansive, though traditional book in mind: "The Hours".
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The Invention of the “Beach Read” | The New Yorker | 14/06/2019
Where did the concept of summer reading come from? Around the turn of the 19th century, urbanization and industralization gave summertime a new radiance and literature began to reflect the image of the genteel reader escaping into...
When the World’s Most Famous Mystery Writer Vanished | The New York Times | 11/06/2019
On a cold December night in 1926, Agatha Christie went out in her beloved Morris Cowley roadster and didn't return home for 11 days. Here's how her disapperance played out.
Disease, dependence and death: The dark reality behind Jane Austen’s pearlescent prose | The Independent | 9/06/2019
Exploring the shadows between the lines of the great novelist's work.