Produced by editor Bill Marx for PRI/BBC's The World, World Books features original online coverage of international literature and culture that connects what is happening in the news with the world of books.
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World Books "Curiosity is the purest form of insubordination.” -- Vladimir Nabokov
World Books Artist David Polonsky -- He didn't win an Oscar for the film, but he's proud of the graphic novel version of "Waltz With Bashir."
World Books has a posted a couple of podcasts since the last entry on the wall, including a conversation with "Waltz With Bashir" artist David Polonsky.
World Books Once again World Books honcho posts on the wall -- a couple of days ago posted podcast #25, an interesting discussion with the head of the Yale University Press about a new translation series.
World Books I just posted my first podcast (#23) in a review format -- talked to Helen Epstein about two memoirs -- and since I interviewed the author of one, Azar Nafisi, this week I got a chance to ask her questions about the book that Helen raised in her review. I liked the give-and-take of this.
World Books I just finished editing podcast #22 with Romanian-born writer Norman Manea. He has written a number of superb books, thorny meditations on the intersection of creativity and tyranny.
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“The New York Times” recently published an intelligent review of H. G. Adler's "The Journey." Reviewer Richard Lourie writes that “I’ve read a lot of books, but nothing quite like this one. An attempt to use the instruments of 20th-century literature to depict the dislocations of spirit and consciousness caused by the ...genocide against the Jews, its style could be called Holocaust modernism, an improbable formulation if ever there was one." I included "The Journey" in my list of the year's best books in translation because Adler approaches the sublimely "improbable" with this novel, which the Holocaust survivor wrote in the early 1950s.
Go here for my interview with translator Peter Filkins ...http://www.theworld.org/pod/worldbooks/w
