Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
A Literary Road Trip into the Heart of Russia | New York Times Magazine | 14/02/18
Karl Ove Knausgård, author of the volumes of My Struggle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), toured the land of Tolstoy, Turgenev and Dostoevsky in search of stories.
Entrevista a Paul Auster | Tot el temps del món | 12/02/18
Anna Guitart interviews Paul Auster for the first episode of Tot el temps del món, a new TV program based on long interviews to writers.
The cult of Mary Beard | The Guardian | 30/01/18
A look at the rise to fame of Mary Beard, a classics don and intellectual, the latest book of which is Women and Power: A Manifesto (Liveright).
Zadie Smith: "I have a very messy and chaotic mind" | The Guardian | 21/01/18
Following the publication of Feel Free, the British writer answers questions from Teju Cole, Maria Balshaw or London's mayor Sadiq Khan.
Two excerpts from "Winter", by Karl Ove Knausgaard | Electric Literature | 16/01/18
Electric Literature publishes two excerpts of Karl Ove Knausgaard's new book, concretely the ones in which he considers writing habits and conversation.
J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White | The New York Times
A look at the photographs that J. M. Coetzee made as a teenager in South Africa becomes a review of his literary and biographical career.