News Date: Sunday, November 8, 2015 As soon as I mentioned it to Pascal Wyse, who created the soundtrack, he pointed out that the first three seconds of the audio file were missing. I listened again as soon as it was fixed, and those three seconds involved the sound of a train arriving. Suddenly the …
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News Date: Sunday, August 2, 2015 The idea of The Great American Novel feels like an albatross around the neck of that country’s literature. Sooner or later every white middle-class male writer with any kind of reputation feels obliged to have a stab at it, usually with limited success. Eventually they think it’s time to …
News Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 When it was announced on Monday that Nobel laureate Günter Grass had passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven, we asked longtime WLTcontributor Theodore Ziolkowski to offer a few words of tribute. We also reprint on theWLT website Dr. Ziolkowski’s earlier essay on Grass, written shortly after the German writer …
News Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 In 2013, I went on a date to see Aziz Ansari on tour. It was the third time I had gone out with this person, and while we got along pretty well, it seemed clear that things weren’t headed for love or marriage. But she’d been a fan of …
News Date: Thursday, July 30, 2015 Who is Ronit Matalon? An Israeli fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic, as a journalist she covered Gaza and the West Bank from 1986 to 1993 for the distinguished left-wing newspaper Haaretz. She is currently a professor of comparative literature at the University of Haifa as well as a …
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News Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 Dan Brown is the author of bestselling novels such as “The Da Vinci Code” and “Angels & Demons.” His next Robert Langdon novel “Inferno” is scheduled to be released on May 14, 2013. Robert Langdon is a fictional Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology. He is usually …
News Date: Monday, March 4, 2013 Shutterhacks When it comes to literary merit, Minnesotans have a lot to be proud of. We’re home to three of the largest nonprofit literary publishers (Graywolf Press, Coffee House Press, and Milkweed Editions) and the largest nonprofit literary center in the United States (the Loft Literary Center). Also, Minneapolis and …
News Date: Sunday, March 31, 2013 Nigerian author Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé, better known as Chinua Achebe whose internationally praised writing gave Africans a voice by destroying the mold cast by colonialism, died on March 22, 2013. He was 82. Achebe’s seminal novel, “Things Fall Apart“, was one of the first African novels written in English to achieve worldwide success. …
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News Date: Friday, March 15, 2013 An Evening with Russian famous writer Dmitry Bykov in London is a rollercoaster of politics and poetry from one of Russia’s great satirical writers. Dmitry Bykov is a larger-than-life figure in so many ways. He is a big man and his personality is immense; his unruly hair and casual …
News Date: Friday, February 1, 2013 Translator Katherine Silver looks forward to June roundtable in Banff By Michael Hingston, Edmonton Journal January 31, 2013 Katherine Silver EDMONTON – As a child in California’s Bay Area, Katherine Silver grew up in an environment that was, for all intents and purposes, bilingual. But the Spanish she was …
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