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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time".

LRT English presents a series of articles about seminal works by Lithuanian authors – all of them are available in Engli...

With eight forthcoming translations of his books, Vladimir Sorokin is gaining recognition in the West just as, he says, Russian writers need to fight back in a semantic war on truth.

John Wilson recaps his year in reading, chronicling the books that stand out the most.

Evan Dara activates the contemporary reader’s apocalyptic and bloodthirsty cultural sensibility but also turns it against itself.

What is to become of literature, one wonders, seeing everywhere one goes, whether taking a walk in a park or a seat...

In the Stories of Kjell Askildsen, Stasis and Revelation Intertwine Archipelago, 2021 The narratives of "Everything Like Before," only the second book by the Norwegian writer to be published in the US, bend toward the seemingly mundane, then sting with an act that might (or might not) change everything. Kjell Askildsen, winner of the Swedish Academy’s Nordic Prize in 2009, is a consummate chronicler of contradictory, quicksilver emotions and impulses. There is in his work a careful calibratio...

New biography published of Kildare writer Aidan Higgins Reporter: A biography of a Kildare born writer, Aidan Higgins, has just been published. At the Cork World Book Festival on Saturday, April 24, the book, A Very Strange Man — A Memoir of Aidan Higgins, written by his long time partner and wife, Alannah Hopkin, was launched. Partnership The book is mostly a memoir of Aidan Higgins, but much more besides. The pair were introduced in 1986 by poet Derek Mahon in Kinsale. She was 36 and he wa...

Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents Each time Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum releases a book by Korean novelist Jung Young Moon, a new batch of readers gain exposure to his vivid, bewildering work. Korean novelist Jung Young Moon. Courtesy of Deep Vellum Publishing Each time Dallas-based publisher Deep Vellum releases a book by Korean novelist Jung Young Moon, a new batch of readers gain exposure to his vivid, bewildering work. Korean novelist Jung Young Moon. Courtesy of De...

Brooklyn, NY, June 19, 2020. Volume 62, Issue 1 SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK. As mnemonics go, one of the best, as equipment for living, not the recipe we need. Though this issue hits the bookstands the day after we spin the clocks ahead, if springing forward is what you’re looking for, you’ve come to the wrong place. Many things must change, given where we’ve been, yet none of that will happen unless we come to terms with what we’ve learned. And it isn’t the lies, the self-dealing, the ...