How I became a Nun review

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Cesar Aira`s How I became a Nun, forthcoming from New Directions.

FT and The Economist best lists

More best of the year lists: the Financial Times offer their Pick of the Year - Key words, while The Economist offers the books Fighting to be tops.

Finlandia Prize to Kjell Westo

Another Swedish-writing author wins Finland`s biggest literary prize.

Small presses, international focus

Time Out (NY) also recently had a look at the small presses that make a greater effort to publish fiction in translation, as Michael Miller looks at what`s Found in translation.

Time Out (NY) critic critiques

Time Out (NY) is `Critiquing the Critics` -- including (some of) New York`s literary critics.

NYRB enthusiasm

In The Los Angeles Times D.T.Max enthuses about a variety of New York Review Books re-issues.

Grass exhibit

Deutsche Welle report that Gunter Grass Art Exhibition Opens on German-Polish Border, about the exhibit: Guenter Grass, Graphics and Sculptures at the Silesian Museum in Gorlitz.

Atxaga on Basque

Basque writer Bernardo Atxaga writes on My First Language -- euskara, or Basque -- at The Threepenny Review.

The Vertical Hour review

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of David Hare`s new play, The Vertical Hour.

New Nigerians

Articles on: a New generation of Nigerian novelists emerging, and A season of prizes for Nigeria`s hottest new writer.