Increased literacy levels and technology have ensured the democratisation of contemporary Indian literature. . . The essential features of the literature during the last sixty years cannot be similarly captured in terms of a few major trends or influences.
Mark Twain, left a worldwide legacy that has continued since his death 100 years ago. As cities across the country are celebrating Twain this year, Twain experts explain how he shaped American literature and culture . . .
We’ve got enough mindless entertainment in the world today. When I read War and Peace, I don’t want to hear an actor reciting Bezukhov’s lines. I want to read them for myself and add my own thoughts . . .
Despite the best efforts of his widow to quash it, a new biography of Ryszard Kapuscinski has been published in Poland which describes the writer as a liar and a communist spy. . . In other words, that he made things up about himself and the events he claimed to have witnessed.
Over 65 years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, primary sources are vanishing; there are now only around 5,000 Holocaust survivors alive in the UK. . . . there’s a sense that writers of the second and third generation are beginning to tire of the Shoah.
After 30 years of detective work and eye-strain, Dubliners Danis Rose and John O’Hanlon have produced a corrected version of “Finnegans Wake.” They attribute the mistakes to James Joyce’s failing eyesight. . .
Six years ago, when violence was the order of the day here, Elias Khoury’s 20-year-old son, George, was killed in a Palestinian terrorist attack. The Khourys are Palestinian and so are the killers, who said “sorry . . . we assumed the jogger was a Jew.”
Irène d’Almeida, the University of Arizona’s French and Italian department head, will convene the 36th Annual African Literature Association Conference, which will include lectures, presentations and film screenings.
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