Unaccustomed Earth" is a book of eight stories by a Pulitzer Prize winning writer, born in London (her parents were from India) and brought up in Rhode Island, USA. Her first book of stories, "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999), was well
Jan Egeland, the former UN humanitarian chief who famously described the war in northern Uganda as the world's biggest forgotten crisis, has claimed in a new book that President Yoweri Museveni told him within months of the South Sudan mediated
Tommy Lee Jones will adapt, direct, produce and star in a movie based on Ernest Hemingway's posthumously published novel Islands in the Stream reports Reuters. Morgan Freeman and John Goodman may also join Jones in the film project. "Islands" centers
Very impressively: The Bachmann competition -- the prestigious Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis -- goes out online this year in seven languages. All the texts, discussions and commentaries will be translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Czech and Slovenian.
The first few British reviews for Joseph O'Neill's Netherland are in, but it's the US reviews that are attracting notice -- mainly because of the high praise that's been sung. They haven't reviewed it yet, but in The Observer Peter
The first two in a series of interviews with Murakami Haruki are now available at the Mainichi Daily News: first, Haruki Murakami opens up about translating America's literary giants, and then (with some overlap) Murakami says American contemporary classics 'really
