An audio recording, with still photo accompaniment, of Paul Celan reading Todesfuge. ...

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The latest to the club, Scott Timberg pens a lengthy and thoughtful appreciation of Things Fall Apart for the Los Angeles Times.The bo...

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Observations of the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart continue apace, with this one from AllAfrica.com:It is thus with awe and extreme sense of gratitude ...

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Tom Stoppard is unequivocal on the matter of l'affaire Nabokov.In all honour, we must honour the only fact: that he said “Burn it.”...

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Did the Nobel Prize winning Spanish author Camilo José Cela commit plagiarism?  The question is coming up before Barcelona's Constitutional Court.Cela was a controversial figure whose best-kno...

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Something to save for our UK travels: 48 hours in literary London.7 p.m. - You'll be thirsty for a drink when you arrive, but don't waste time s...

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Is Martin Amis worth £3,000 an hour?Inevitably, the size of Amis's salary was instantly condemned by the general secretary of the University and Coll...

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The Guardian has reproduced Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize acceptance speech in its entirety.I have been looking at the speeches by some of the recent Nobel priz...

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I'm back from my internet-free weekend and, on the whole, found it restorative and recommend the exercise highly.  Unfortunately, I ...

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Ronan Bennett's striking repudiation of Martin Amis's continuing racist invective is one of the most extraordinary public pronounce...

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