Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Feminize Your Canon: Olivia Manning | Paris Review | 13/06/18
"I don’t want fame when I’m dead", said the Brisith novelist Olivia Manning. "I want it now."
Language as Homeland, Identity and Normality | Lit Hub | 7/06/18
"In our world where language decline and extinction seems as inevitable as gentrification, where it is estimated a language dies out every 14 days, Catalan is an anomaly."
Five Dials #45. Europe in Pieces
In the new issue of Five Dials, Najat El Hachmi writes about the language of dreams and Colm Tóibín about Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda.
Lauren Groff: By the Book | The New York Times | 24/05/18
"Something invisible and pernicious seems to be preventing even good literary men from either reaching for books with women’s names on the spines, or from summoning women’s books to mind when asked to list their influences."
...What Philip Roth Didn’t Know About Women Could Fill a Book | The New York Times | 25/05/18
According to Dara Horn, Philip Roth has included American Jews in the literary canon but does not show any curiosity about Jewish women.
Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84 | The Paris Review | Tardor 1984
"I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader in mind. I think, “How he is going to hate this!” That can be just the encouragement I need."