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July 29, 2009

Well Titled, Well Covered features There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night

The New Yorker‘s blog The Book Bench recently featured Cao Naiqian’s There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night in their “Well Titled, Well Covered” feature. Here’s how they explain their criteria for their well...

July 28, 2009

The Los Angeles Times on Fitzgerald and Hemingway: Work and Days

July 17, 2009

Summer reading recommendations from PRI’s The World

Looking for a good summer novel that goes beyond your conventional beach reading? Well, Bill Marx from PRI’s The World offers four recommendations of fiction in translation. The list includes The Halfway House, by Guillermo Rosales, In the United States...

July 10, 2009

Interview with John Balcom, Translator of "There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night"

We had meant to post this earlier but PRI’s The World recently interview John Balcom, the translator of the just-published There’s Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night by Chinese writer Cao Naiqian. You can...

June 30, 2009

Shakespeare in China

In his new book Chinese Shakespeares: Two Centuries of Cultural Exchange, Alexander Huang examines “the transnational imaginary of China in Shakespearean performance and Shakespeare’s place in Chinese cultural history from the first Opium War in 1839 to our times.” Huang...

June 16, 2009

Celebrate Bloomsday with Marilyn Monroe

The image of Marilyn Monroe reading Ulysses is from the cover to James Joyce: A Critical Guide, by Lee Spinks and since it is Bloomsday today, we thought we would point out a few Joyce-related titles from our list. In...

June 3, 2009

The Valve Continues Its Discussion of Jenny Davidson's Breeding

“Jenny Davidson’s new book of cultural criticism, entitled Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century, is one of the strangest and most elliptical works of its kind I’ve ever read.”—Joseph Kugelmass “After challenging the reader’s expectations about the forms...

May 27, 2009

The Valve Begins Its Book Event/Discussion on Jenny Davidson's "Breeding"

The Valve has begun its eagerly anticipated discussion of Jenny Davidson’s Breeding: A Partial History of the Eighteenth Century. Davidson, it should be noted, is an academic, novelist, YA author, and blogger. Given the many genres in which she works,...

May 14, 2009

Interview with Marian Ronan, author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism

Marian Ronan is the author of Tracing the Sign of the Cross: Sexuality, Mourning, and the Future of American Catholicism . This interview originally appeared in EqualwRites (EwR) EwR: Can we begin by asking the significance of its title, Tracing...

May 7, 2009

Hubert Harrison as book reviewer

Scott McLemee’s piece on the Columbia Journalism Review Web site explores Hubert Harrison’s role as a book reviewer and critic. Harrison is of course the subject of Jeffrey Perry’s new biography, Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism, 1883-1918, which...

May 5, 2009

Hard-Boiled Sentimentality Receives a Macavity Award Nomination

Congratulations to Leonard Cassuto, author of Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American Crime Stories, for receiving a Macavity award nomination in the category of Best Nonfiction/Critical book. The Macavity awards are selected by Mystery Readers International. Hard-Boiled Sentimentality was...

April 28, 2009

More from William Logan — An Excerpt from Our Savage Art

As Poetry Month winds to a close and with Sunday’s NYT review still fresh in our minds, we thought it appropriate to return once again to William Logan’s Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue. In the opening essay...