My review of the fourth volume of Canetti’s memoirs in the newly released issue of the Cerise Press. “I was living in England as its intellect decayed. I was a witness to the fame of a T.S. Eliot. Is it possible for people ever to repent sufficiently of that? An American brings over a Frenchman […]
An article in Berlin literary magazine Readux about Arthur Koestler, his newly reissued Dialogue with Death and defining one of the 20th century’s most polarizing intellectual figures. Link: Koestler on Readux Photo – Arthur Koestler, Paris 1937 – by Fred Stein
Eastern European literature snuck its way into the pages of The Guardian last week when former Granta-editor Ian Jack revealed the hoax behind Albanian writer Jiri Kajane. Following publication of Kajane’s stories in American literary magazines such as Glimmer Train, the Chicago Review and the Michigan Quarterly Review in the mid 90s, Jack became interested […]
Aleksandar Ristovic (1933-1994) is a Serbian poet whose sole book in English, Devil’s Lunch, was translated by Serbian-American poet Charles Simic and published in 1999. At Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation poet Jeffrey McDaniel provides a mouth watering introduction to Ristovic’s work by taking readers through the title poem “Devil’s Lunch.” For more […]
Eastern disillusionment meets western incomprehension On Dorota Masłowska’s play – “A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians” It is hard to be subversive in the 21st century. Writers and artists of all kinds have been aiming in that particular direction for so long now that it seems almost old-fashioned. And if you’re from what is commonly […]
The 48th annual International Book Fair for Children wound up in Bologna a few days ago and some great Polish designers were among the award winners. Iwona Chmielewska won top prize in the non-fiction category for her illustrations for the Korean book Maum – House of the Spiritsby Heekyung Kim. Aleksandra and Daniel Mizielilinski, who […]
“The rest is vibration. The old man went on laughing and listening to the distinct vibrations of love at a distance in the outer quarters of Bucharest. The apparatus had been perfected at this point, and its accuracy had increased so greatly that all the old satyr had to do was close his eyes, […]
At the ongoing Mission Creek Festival in Iowa City – which includes Sam Lipsyte, Das Racist and John Waters among many others – Queens-based cooperative Lightful press will be introducing their latest book, Poems from Children’s Island by Sasha Chernyi (also transliterated as Sasha Chernyi and Chorny). The bilingual edition of this classic of Russian […]
Readux is a new Berlin-based literary website with a wide range of coverage of German and French books and literary goings on. The site will feature reviews, interviews, articles, opinion and through April 3rd even has a book giveaway. Launched earlier in March the site already has a lot of interesting content, including a great […]
Link: Estonian Literary Magazine With articles on two different ways for writers to approach Estonian history comparing author of Purge, Sofi Oksanen and the less well-known poet and novelist Ene Mihkelson, as well as one on Russians in Estonian literature (ethnic Russians make up 25% of the population) there looks to be a lot on […]
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