Archive | October 2008
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New Arabic Literature
Literary Salon has a nice write up of an interesting link to a new book on modern Arabic literature. It sounds interesting and has great promise. When I was reading the article I went to the publisher’s site and if you are interested in Arabic literature the next year has some promissing offerings. I think [...]
In Search of a Lost Ladino
In Search of a Lost Ladino Marcel Cohen I bought this book because I wanted to read the original Ladino which is quite similar to Spanish., and as a Spanish speaker I was quite curious about the structure of the language and its similarity to Spanish. However, there is something else to this book that [...]
Horacio Castellanos Moya on Bookworm
I haven’t listed to this yet but Horacio Castellanos Moya was on Bookworm recently.
A Spaniard in New York – La ciudad automática
Letras Libres has a review of what looks like a fascinating book. A Spanish reporter, Julio Camba, comes to 1930′s New York and writes his reactions to the the city and the depression. As the review points out, it would make a good contrast to Poet in New York by Lorca. Apparently he didn’t quite [...]
Good-Bye
Good-Bye Yoshihiro Tatsumi As often as I read graphic novels I often feel there is something lacking, the story perhaps, or maybe the characters, but I think it is the drawings themselves. They draw on traditions or images that once were pulp with little to say and the visual connection between the two weakens the [...]
