Nobel laureate Müller puts Liu Xiaobo’s name forward
Literature Nobel laureate Herta Müller recommends Liu Xiaobo, writer, president of Chinese PEN, and co-founder of Charter 08, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Literature Nobel laureate Herta Müller recommends Liu Xiaobo, writer, president of Chinese PEN, and co-founder of Charter 08, for the Nobel Peace Prize.
I’m focused on my own writing right now, thus the dearth of longer posts, slowdown in reviewing, and trickle of remainders. I feel guilty about it, if that helps. A couple weeks ago, I was reading Rupert Thomson’s gorgeously evocative, meticulously pared-down This Party’s Got to Stop. About a third of the way through, I had to take a break. . . .
In Chekhov, writes James Lasdun, literature seems to face us, “for the first time, with a reflection of ourselves in our unadorned ordinariness [and] our unfathomable strangeness.”
Another great essay in the LRB: Tom McCarthy says French writers who’ve come of age in the past 30 years have had to grapple with the question, what do you do after the nouveau roman?