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News, Reviews, and Interviews
This Hong Kong bookseller is keeping banned books on his shelves, selling works that are critical of the Chinese leadership.
Slovenian author Al…
Banned Books
- Mia Couto. Photo by Shevaun Williams. News, Reviews, and Interviews Online literary magazine The Mantle is starting its own publishing imprint under the same name. Its focus will be on inte…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Time magazine featured a debate sure to spark interest in readers. The article asked whether or not it was acceptable to write in books as part of interacting wi…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Scholar and t…
- News, Reviews, and Interviews Nobel laureate Günter Grass passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven. We have a tribute to Grass written by longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Zi…
- Andrés Neuman autographing a book after opening night. Photo by Laura Hernandez We’ve been buzzing on the WLT Facebook and Twitter accounts all week with exciting reports from the 2014 Puter…
- Photo by Matt Douma. Neustadt juror Krys Lee is one of two authors honored with an American Academy of Arts and Letters, read more about Neustadt Prize-related news in the Neustadt Lit Links. This we…
- While you’re browsing through this week’s set of lit links, we would really appreciate your help. We are currently in the running for ASME’s Best Cover Contest and need votes to win! All you have to d…
- After Alice Munro and Eleanor Catton were announced as the Nobel Prize and Man Booker Prize winners, respectively, new questions have arisen about women in publishing. In the links below, you’ll find…
- To catch up on all the links we missed while we were celebrating the Neustadt Festival last Friday, we've included more links this week than ever before. Happy browsing! News, Reviews, and Int…
- As Banned Books Week comes to a close, we shift our gaze upon the censorship of authors on an international scale. Below is a list of 17 books that have been banned in the last decade. The original ve…
- Our links this week are rich with news from around the globe. Catch up on anything you missed by clicking the links below, and don't forget to come back next week for even more news! News, Rev…
- This week was a mix of delight and sadness—we said "hello" to recently-discovered material from both Katherine Mansfield and F. Scott Fitzgerald, but we also said "goodbye" to a beloved writer and cri…