The South Korean novelist on her visits to death row, exposing sex offenders, and the dread march of materialism: The...
Month: June 2014
A novel about the struggle to find stability in a life of displacement: The Globe & Mail Where do you...
Family saga with a wicked witch at its heart: The Independent Roopa Farooki's sixth novel is a family saga sprawling...
Mourn not yet the death of bookshops and literature—a Norwegian writer, now living in Sweden, is a surprising, relieving phenomenon...
Isabel Hilton on Chinese politics and culture across three continents: The Guardian In 2010, the Chinese writer Liao Yiwu wrote an open...
A late-night library in Tokyo’s trendy Shibuya district that allows patrons to enjoy a good book and a drink in...
The Iranian Artists Forum hosted the meeting “Indian Contemporary Literature” attended by the scholar Safdar Taqizadeh, as well as Ehsan...
The extraordinary life of Xu Sanguan, a famous Chinese fictional character who sells his blood over the years to support his family, will soon be adapted in South Korea as a blood merchant. South Korea's popular actor Ha Jung-woo recently started directing and starring in a film adaptation of a renowned Chinese author Yu Hua's 1995 novel "Xu Sanguan Mai Xue Ji" or" Chronicle of a Blood Merchant". (more…)
Kingston Writing School Hilary Mantel International Short Story Competition invites stories in English. Stories will be judged by Booker Prize winner,...
Jaiwanti Dimri reviews A Box of Stolen Moments by Usha Bande. New Delhi: Lifi Publications, 2014. Rs. 160, pp 164. A...
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