Literary Radar

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

Opening a bookstore, instructions for use | The New Barcelona Post | 11/09/18

There's a new bookstore in town: Carol Porta and Dioni Porta have opened the Obaga Bookstore, at the upper sector of Girona street.

Han Kang to bury next book for almost 100 years in Norwegian forest | The Guardian | 31/08/18

Han Kang's next novel is part of the Future Library Project, which means that it won't be published for another hundred years.

For the Ugly Ones: The Spiky Feminist Anger of Virginie Despentes | The Paris Review | 5/09/18

Lauren Elkin rediscovers Virginie Despentes and writes about rage, the violence of women and against women or the female grotesque.

Conversations with Sally Rooney: the 27-year-old novelist defining a generation | The Guardian | 25/08/18

She's been dubbed a Salinger for the Snapchat generation: Sally Rooney says she writes "stories about fake people".

‘Different sex. Same person’: how Woolf’s Orlando became a trans triumph | The Guardian | 3/09/18

According to Jeanette Winterson, Virginia Woolf's Orlando is the first English language trans novel, and here she explains why.

The Strange Case of the Missing Joyce Scholar | The New York Times | 12/06/18

John Kidd dedicated his life to making the perfect edition of Ulysses -until he disappeared and everyone thought he was dead.