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The Guadalajara International Book Fair attracted 800,000 visitors and featured 2,173 exhibitors and 3,000 activities—including 700 book launches, readings, and lectures—nearly matching pre-pandemic levels of attendance.

Dallas, Texas’s Deep Vellum Publishing has had an extraordinary year, relaunching Dalkey Archive Press and publishing Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkovs Grey Bees just as Russia invaded Ukraine. We spoke with publisher Will Evans and this and other bookish matters.

Here, in Marguerite Young’s “Miss Macintosh,” is utopia, well in excess of sense or design—and finally in excess of life.

Sorokin’s novels do not “say” anything about Russia today.

“To love Sorokin the reader must submit entirely, without recourse or handhold,” writes critic Allison Bulger.

Influenced by the Surrealists, the obscure Chilean novelist took to task the social realist status quo in his magical fiction.

For the Russian novelist, the end of Soviet literary and political culture marked the loss of a powerful foil.

The Longcut follows a scrapped novel about Seattle’s art scene.

The Serbian-Canadian author David Albahari wins the €10,000 biennial Aleksandar Tišma International Literary Prize.

By Garth Meyer Grasshoppers blew in to Redondo Beach from the southwest. Young boys gathered and sold them for chicken feed. Whale meat was available too…