Literary Radar

Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.

Special Feature: Catalunya | Asymptote Journal | Octubre

The fall issue of Asymptote Journal comes with a Catalan Fiction Feature - you can read Neus Canyelles, Cèlia Suñol or Marta Rojals in English.

The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia | The Atlantic | 4/10/18

Several "feminist dystopias" build worlds in which abortion is criminalized in the US or women can't pronounce more than 100 words a day.

Meeting with Hanif Kureishi | CCCB | October

Hanif Kureishi visited CCCB on October 3; in case you could not go, here's the conversation he had with Alicia Kopf.

A Master Class in Women’s Rage | Electric Literature | 27/09/18

Here is a non-fiction syllabus to immerse yoruself in female anger, from a current and above all North American point of view.

Sir Quentin Blake reimagines Matilda 30 years on | BBC | 1/10/18

Matilda was published on October 1, 1988. What would she be doing, nowadays? Quentin Blake draws a bunch of possible futures.

The Salacious Non-Mystery of "The Real Lolita" | The New Yorker | 17/09/18

In The Real Lolita, Sarah Weinman tells the story of the crime against Sally Horner, which Nabokov probably used for his novel.