A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Orkus by Gerhard Roth.

It’s hard to argue with the Canadian poet who was awarded literature’s most prestigious award on Thursday. That may be the problem.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to Anne Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literatu...

Die Stadt Wien übernimmt den erhaltenen Teil des literarischen Archivs der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin und Wiener Ehrenbürgerin Elfriede Jelinek. Der Teilvorlass soll von der Wienbibliothek im Rathau....

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A Catalogue of Poetry with Commentary

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

Even popular books are getting shorter and easier to read: their sentences are shorter, their paragraphs are shorter

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Bedeutungswelten by Giwi Margwelaschwili.

“Festschrift” is a German word coined in the 19th century by combining ”fest”, meaning “celebration” or “festival,” with ”schrift”, meaning “writing” or “script,” to signify “celebration writing” or “...

For 32 years, Gerhard Roth worked on his two novel cycles Die Archive des Schweigens and Orkus – a unique cosmos of literature and thought containing both...

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From Spain’s most celebrated author, an inventive, quietly radical novel that explores how books illuminate our livesIn Camera Obscura, Enrique Vila-Matas ...

It sounds improbable. It shouldn’t.

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of Honeymoon to Nowhere by Takagi Akimitsu.

Matthes & Seitz Berlin - Freuds Satz vom Realitätszeichen gilt nicht nur für das Unbewußte. Auch in der Geschichtsschreibung sind Wahrheit und mit Affekten besetzte Fiktion ebenso schwer (und manchmal...

A review, and links to other information about and reviews of The Defection of A.J. Lewinter by Robert Littell.

Während fünfzehn Jahren führt Cesare Pavese, einer der wichtigsten Vertreter des Neorealismo, ein Tagebuch. Es sind die Jahre, in denen seine Werke erscheinen, von den ersten Gedichten bis zum letz...

The Craft of Living is a collection of journals written by Italian intellectual Cesare Pavese between 1935, when the Fascist regime exiled him to Calabria, and 1950, the year he committed suicide. This is the first English publication of these journals in their entirety.

Andrea Abreu publishes 'Pajaritos preñados', her second novel, after selling 100,000 copies of her debut, 'Panza de burro'