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The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Bibish's The Dancer from Khiva, which won several major Russian book awards.

runs 30 August to 7 September, with 286 publishers (but only from six countries).

So the new Orhan Pamuk is due out tomorrow -- albeit only in Turkish (and possibly German). But The Museum of Innocence wil be translated into 30 languages, and English will be among them.

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Javier Marias writes about Esta absurda aventura in El Pais -- by which he doesn't mean writing, but rather his publishing venture.

Leading Urdu poet Ahmed Faraz has passed away.

The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Wojciech Tochman's look at Surviving the Past in Bosnia, Like Eating a Stone.

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in Lesok, Macedonia.

So last year the Swiss moved away from the protectionist policy of fixed book prices, but now it looks like they've already changed their minds.

John Curran reports on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferencefor the AP, in At writing camp, schlepping goes with scholarship.

New York have their 'Fall Preview' issue out, which includes a Books-preview section.

In the Salisbury Journal they profile Aflame Books and Richard Bartlett, in Lost in translation !

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At Nextbook Wesley Yang writes about Otto Weininger and wonders, Was This Man a Genius ?

Three Percent has an interesting interview with Slovak Rivers of Babylon-author Peter Pist'anek.

With Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo finally due in the US in a couple of weeks we're bracing ourselves for a flood of coverage; as is we've already had more than enough from the UK and France,

In The Guardian Maya Jaggi has (yet another) profile of The Yacoubian Building-author Alaa Al Aswany, Cairo calling.

In The Guardian William Dalrymple has a nice write-up of the British Library exhibit The Ramayana: Love and Valour in India's Great Epic, in All Indian life is here.