The maelstrom of Man Booker attention is only now starting to quieten down, but Ruth Ozeki tells The Japan Times...
Day: December 7, 2013
The Aesthetics of Strangeness: Eccentricity and Madness in Early Modern Japan by W. Puck Brecher Misfits. Oddballs. Bohemians. In Tokugawa Japan?...
Interests in Chinese society and culture have bloomed: People Daily (Photo: People Daily) When Sinologists get together, they don't just talk about museums and artifacts. They discuss science fiction, international commerce, national governance and Chineseliterature, among others. "Some of you are into Chinese art, some into costumes, some into how we raise crickets,"says Mo Yan, the Nobel laureate. "But they're all Chinese studies and will contribute tocultural exchange." (more…)
The third edition of the recently concluded Hay Festival in Dhaka, Bangladesh (founded by Peter Florence and Tahmima Anam in 2011) witnessed...
Now Gurgaon will have its festival too: TOI The disparate but symbiotic worlds of technology and literature will converge next...
The art of adapting Russian plays – and novels and stories – for the stage: The SpectatorI recently met an...
Superficial but fun, this satire describes life for Chinese old money and nouveaux: The Independent At the heart of the...
Majid Maqbool interviews Adrian Levy, co-author of “The Siege: 68 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel”: NYT In 9/11 and 7/11 much...
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