Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Hanya Yanagihara: influential magazine editor by day, best-selling author by night | The Guardian | 22/04/18
The author of A Little Life combines nocturnal writing with the (diurnal) work as an editor of T magazine, the style supplement of The New York Times.
Middlemarch: Jennifer Egan on how George Eliot’s unorthodox love life shaped her masterpiece | The Guardian | 21/04/18
Jennifer Egan analyzes how the peculiar relationship between Mary Ann Evans and George Henry Lewes influenced Evan's portrait of marriage.
The Magic of Books Where Photography Meets Essays | The New York Times Magazine | 18/04/18
A look at books that explore the dialogue between text and photography, with examples such as John Szarkowski and Eugène Atget, Teju Cole or Garry Winogrand.
The bottomless generosity of the writer's memoir | LitHub | 18/04/18
Larissa Pham explores the background and form of writers' memoirs, and cites Rainer Maria Rilke, Mary Karr, Leslie Jamison or Alexander Chee.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's remains rediscovered in wine cellar | The Guardian | 12/04/18
An excavation reveals the exact location of the coffin of the English romantic poet, author of Kubla Khan and heavy drinker.
Teenage Vandals Were Sentenced to Read Books | The New York Times | 5/04/18
Last year, a judge in Virginia forced five teenagers who had painted swastikas in a black school to read specific books. Did the sentence work?