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Amanda Perry (The Walrus) writes, “I came of age loving the works of Milan Kundera and Derek Walcott. Now, as a professor of literature, I have to ask tough questions.” Here are excerpts. [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]  I DISCOVERED MILAN KUNDERA at the age when his work is…

At a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, amidst the joyous remarks of the other presenters on the unification of the European continent, Ukrainian writer Yuri Andrukhovych conveyed his skepticism about the success of the “New Europe.” For Andrukhoych, 2009 was marked by the waning of any remaining fervor surrounding Ukraine's Orange Revolution of 2004-2005, the pro-democracy protests that preceded the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2013-2014. Then Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko also signed a gas deal with Russian dictator Vladi...

Acclaimed Albanian novelist Ismail Kadare has talked about being smothered by "the hell of communism" and how writing helped him survive one of the worst dictators in the old Eastern Bloc."The hell of communism, like every other hell, was smothering in the worst sense of the term.

The New York poet Louise Glück, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020, has died at the age of 80. This has been confirmed by her editor, Jonathan