Russia's Heller? . . .
Dennis Johnson
Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich, who writes about the “complicity between the ruler and the ruled,” is profiled in the current issue of The New York Review of Books in an… Read more »
Russian satirist Vladimir Voinovich, who writes about the “complicity between the ruler and the ruled,” is profiled in the current issue of The New York Review of Books in an… Read more »
A new Russian book reframes the Second World War as it was remembered in letters by Soviet soldiers. According to an article in the Moscow Times by Kevin O’Flynn, veterans… Read more »
Achieving a certain irony in light of his recent attack on Google’s “digital library” (see Monday’s MobyLives news digest), Jean-Noel Jeanneney, head of the French National Library, has announced his… Read more »
In his 17th mystery book, Ten Little New Yorkers: A Novel, which features a character named Kinky Friedman, the actual Kinky Friedman has killed himself off, saying he’s tired of… Read more »
German news magazine Der Spiegel celebrated the release of an English issue in New York on Tuesday with remarks by Stefan Aust, editor, and Wolfgang Ischinger, German Ambassador to the… Read more »
“For nearly two centuries the remains of Friedrich Schiller — poet, playwright and rebel — have lain in a crypt in the town of Weimar, next to the coffin of… Read more »
A collection of condolence letters written to the husband and sister of Virginia Woolf after her suicide in 1941 has been released this week in England. As Sarah Crown notes… Read more »
This summer will see the celebration of a poet’s centennial “that will actually include the guest of honor” — Stanley Kunitz. As Hillel Italie notes in an in-depth profile for… Read more »
In the world of independent bookstores, “‘No more stores are closing today than five years ago,” says Oren Teicher, head of the American Booksellers Association. ”It’s just that there are… Read more »