Articles tagged “today elsewhere”
‘[A] remarkably funny, tender book’: Gabriel Roth’s The Unknowns reviewed in the New York Times.
The murky world of literary libel, or, maybe it’s not a great idea to ‘write out your feelings’ about certain people in fiction.
J. M. Coetzee, Gerald Murnane and the relation between the real and the ideal, in Sydney Review of Books.
Why is English spelling so bizarre?
From the Brontë sisters to J. K. Rowling, a potted history of pen names.
Nicholas Shakespeare’s literary guide to Australia includes Murray Bail’s The Voyage and Eucalyptus, and Patrick White’s Happy Valley.
The greatest American novel? 9 experts share their opinions.
The DOJ has won its ebook antitrust case, to Amazon’s advantage.
So Me and Mr. Booker is a book of wavering, hesitant in its sympathies, welcoming readers to find their own allegiances however they please, which is a mark of its confidence, as well as Cory Taylor’s impressive talents. A great review of Cory Taylor’s Read more
‘Women’s desire is an underestimated and constrained force’: an interview in the Guardian with Daniel Bergner, plus an extract from What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire.
Everything you need to know about the great ebook price war.
Listen to a great review of Charlie Lovett’s The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel of Obsession on Radio NZ.
Revising your writing again? Blame the Modernists.
Hardly one copy would sell here. Hardly one. Hardly one. Gertrude Stein is rejected.
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And so it is that this immensely gifted Chinese writer performs his poetic acts of mourning for the entertainment of audiences in Berlin and New York—an exotic “dissident” abroad, his voice to be heard everywhere except where it is most needed. Read more
‘Elizabeth Harrower’s tale of a cruel and oppressive marriage is a forgotten gem of Australian literature’, says Anita Sethi in the Guardian.
Where in the world do people read the most?
…And then things get a little weird. The story of Norm Macdonald’s Twitter book club.
Watch a video chat between Ramona Koval and Elizabeth Harrower, and read Ramona’s reading notes for The Watch Tower and The Long Prospect over at the Monthly.
