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Philip Pullman's library closure speech

Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s intensely immersive novel Heaven and Hell (translator: Philip Roughton; MacLehose Press, 2010) tells o...

  Here is something of a treasure trove of short fiction out of Korea about which I become more enthusiastic with each volume that I read: T...

I recently sped through three novels written in French during the past 10 years and offer below some brief reactions and comments (any tran...

Only when fortuitous personal circumstances essentially forced me to become serious about learning French did I realize the many splendid p...

I’ve had a spectacular year of literary discovery. It seems only fitting that the setting of the last novel I read in 2010 is the same as t...

Argentinian author César Aira publishes two to three novellas a year, most of them about 100 pages long. To my knowledge only five have so ...

Someone, perhaps an American poet of the Beat Generation, suggested years ago that writers and artists should be included in the teams of a...