PEN have issued their report Failing to Deliver: An Olympic-Year Report Card on Free Expression in China. No surprise: they don't think the Chinese have lived up to their promises.
A new issue of the Swedish Book Review is up, though only a very limited amount is available online. But the most important bit of new is: as Helen Sigeland writes, Translation Support is Back !
No word yet at the official site, last we checked, but they announced the winner of the 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing -- the prestigious African short-story prize -- yesterday, and, as the BBC report, 'Poison' by South African
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Francis Ponge's Mute Objects of Expression, which Archipelago has now admirably brought out in English. Peter Handke translated it into German -- what more do you need to
Deutsche Welle report that The Pope of German Letters Returns to TV, as they're making a $8.3 million-budget TV-movie of German super-critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki's autobiography, The Author of Himself.
There's an exhibit of portraits by Wyndham Lewis at the National Gallery through 19 October -- and in the Sunday Times Waldemar Januszczak writes about Wyndham Lewis's big mistake, arguing that: 'Yes, he was a fascist sympathiser, but the firebrand
The biography-genre continues to be under attack, as Maurice Chittenden reports in the Sunday Times that Bitchiness breaks out in world of biography. Nudity, too !
