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Snow - One of Pamuk's best
Snow Snow is the story of a forty-two year old Turkish exile living in Germany, who returns to a small town of Kars, situated in the north-eastern Turkey. Kars is suffering from a strange suicide epid… more →
Literary Falcon
Bad Sex is back!
amherstdam wrote 16 hours ago: I’m so excited for the annual Bad Sex Awards put out the Literary Review. The nominated passag … more →
On a lighter note...
volcanista wrote 2 days ago: The Literary Review 2009’s shortlist for bad sex writing is now available, complete with excer … more →
Baaaaad sex time again!
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joyciescotland wrote 3 days ago: 2009 has been a year of cringingly cheesy and often physically implausible coitus, in books of cours … more →
News Tripplet
Stephen Rowe wrote 3 days ago: I haven’t had a chance to surf as much today. I did pick up a couple interesting articles here … more →
Book Review: Michael Fry’s Edinburgh.
tychy wrote 5 days ago: Perhaps it takes balls to attempt a history of Edinburgh in less than four hundred pages, but it als … more →
Heartbreak Hotel: Sheridan Le Fanu’s Dragon Volant.
tychy wrote 3 weeks ago: [“The Room in the Dragon Volant” is one of the most accomplished works of suspense ever written, and … more →
Snow - One of Pamuk's best
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Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: Snow Snow is the story of a forty-two year old Turkish exile living in Germany, who returns to a sma … more →
The New Life - A Metaphysical thriller from Orhan Pamuk
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: The New Life Orhan Pamuk entered the post-modern writing, with The White Castle. He established hims … more →
The White Castle - Pamuk's start as a post-modern novelist
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: The White Castle The White Castle is set in medieval times. A Venetian sailor is captured by the Tur … more →
Spontaneous outpourings of an Afghan heart - Review of 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
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Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: Splendid Indeed! Splendid Indeed! I would like to use all those hackneyed expressions about Hosseini … more →
A look at last year’s Noble prize winner in Literature - a review of 'Onitsha'
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: Onitsha Onitsha by 2008 Nobel prize winner in literature, J M G Clezio, was a surprisingly pleasant … more →
Waiting for the Barbarians – The declaration of a rebel
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: …from Africa Waiting for the Barbarians is one of Coetzee’s early works, bearing the character … more →
Dusklands - Coetzee's debut novel
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: The Debut Being Coetzee’s first work of fiction, Dusklands marks the signs of a debut work. It consi … more →
Bleaching “The Birth-mark”: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s warning to America’s abolitionists.
tychy wrote 1 month ago: I was recently reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birth-mark,” which was first published in the Pion … more →
Submissions Closed
expatlitdotcom wrote 1 month ago: We closed the submissions form this afternoon. This week, we’ll get to work on the Autumn 2009 … more →
'Life and Times of Michael K' - a Review
Pankaj Saksena wrote 1 month ago: Michael K ‘Life and Times of Michael K’ is Coetzee vintage. One of the few books marking the milesto … more →
Why should we study English Literature?
tychy wrote 2 months ago: Last year Tychy marked Freshers’ Week at the University of Edinburgh by attempting to offer advice t … more →
Autobiography and Immigration: Caryl Phillips’ The Final Passage.
tychy wrote 2 months ago: If one expects the immigrant’s autobiography to testify to the world which they have left behind, th … more →
How to write a sex scene
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Joseph wrote 2 months ago: I’ve been studying how the novelists I most admire handle sex scenes. There are hundreds of ex … more →
