Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Alicia Kopf: 'I wanted to turn old-fashioned, masculine epics upside down' | The Guardian | 21/05/18
Alicia Kopf talks about Brother in Ice (And Other Stories) with Marta Bausells, who relates her to authors such as Rachel Cusk, Sheila Heti or Leslie Jamison.
'He loved to stir it up': five writers, editors and friends on Tom Wolfe's legacy | The Guardian | 16/05/18
"We’d go out to breakfast. But he’d drive you crazy. He ate oatmeal but he was the slowest eater in the world. Finally I stopped going out to eat with him."
Tom Wolfe Kept a Close, Comical and Astonished Eye on America | The New York Times | 15/05/18
Thomas Wolfe seemed astonished with America, and he expressed that astonishment in his sentences –with symbols such as asterisks, exclamations and capitalized words.
Before Han Kang: Three Korean Modernists You Should Know | Words Without Borders | 4/05/18
When Seoul was Gyeongseong and Han Kang or Kim Ae-ran still didn't exist, there was the urban and modernist literature of Pak Taewon, Yi Sang or Im Hwa.
Nobel prize in literature 2018 cancelled after sexual assault scandal | The Guardian | 4/05/18
The Swedish Academy will not unveil the Nobel Prize for Literature this year, and instead its members will reveal two winners in 2019.
The Child Thing: An Interview with Sheila Heti | The Paris Review | 26/04/18
The Canadian writer, known for How Should a Person Be?, questions the pros and cons of motherhood in her new novel.