Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Laura Bates: witch hunts never stopped – now they're online | The Guardian | 28/02/19
Invited to this year's Kosmopolis, Laura Bates draws up similarities between witch hunts and the current harassment of young women.
'I can't even look at the cover': the most disturbing books | The Guardian | 21/02/19
From American Psycho to Shirley Jackson, gore or dystopian fiction, the Guardian readers share their most disturbing and shocking books.
Marcus du Sautoy: “Humans will never know if the universe is infinite” | CCCB Lab | 19/02/19
The mathematician Marcus du Sautoy talks about artificial intelligence, creativity, Jorge Luis Borges and the limits of consciousness.
Bite-sized: 50 great short stories | The Guardian | 2/02/19
A vindication of short stories: writers like Hilary Mantel, Tessa Hadley and Juhmpa Lahiri pick up their favourite ones.
How We Think of Our Lives | IAI | 5/02/19
An essay on boredom in contemporary literature, with Donald Barthelme, David Foster Wallace, Samuel Beckett, Ottessa Moshfegh or Tao Lin.
Top 10 books about idleness | The Guardian | 6/02/19
In favour of laziness: these are ten books (from Oscar Wilde to Ottessa Moshfegh) about the art of doing nothing.