Posts tagged: literature

G.M. Tamás on Georg Lukács: An Interview

Tamás discusses Lukács' philosophy and the attack on his legacy in Orbán's Hungary.
Reflections on Raymond Williams

Terry Eagleton, Elinor Taylor, Jacob Soule, Patrick Parrinder, and others on the life and work of Raymond Williams.
World Reduction in Le Guin

Fredric Jameson on Ursula K. Le Guin's method of radical abstraction and simplification.
Video: Jacques Rancière, Giuseppina Mecchia, David Bell, Marina van Zuylen, and Suzanne Guerlac — Aesthetics and the Question of Disciplinarity

Rancière elaborates on some of the ideas developed within his latest book, Les Bords de la fiction.
The October Revolution of Antoine Volodine

In the centenary of the October revolution, much has been said about it as a moment in history. Here McKenzie Wark inquires as to what becomes of the myth of October, now that we are in the time of the Anthropocene.
Tragedy Mistaken for Management Theory: On Kazuo Ishiguro and the Nobel Prize in Literature

Should we debate whether another writer deserved the “honour” of the Nobel Prize in Literature more than Kazuo Ishiguro? Consider the nature of this particular distinction.
We Want Everything shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2017 Italian Prose in Translation Award

Matt Holden's translation of Nanni Balestrini's We Want Everything has been shortlisted for the American Literary Translators Association's 2017 Italian Prose in Translation Award.
Movie (1934)

A 1934 poem by Muriel Rukeyser, collected in Red Velvet Seat: Women's Writing on the First Fifty Years of Cinema.
Detective Novels, On Tour

Below is a short essay on train station novels written by Walter Benjamin for Frankfurter Zeitung in 1930, collected in The Storyteller, and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie and Sebastian Truskolaski.
Two Poems by Heriberto Yépez

"~~Yépez~~ is at the forefront of a generation of writers who are questioning notions of fluidity and synthesis, a generation that has seen those same categories veil the advent of global neoliberalism," Edgar Garcia has written.
Engels, Lenin, and the Poetic of Socialist Realism

Galvano Della Volpe's consideration of literary realism after Engels' famous remarks on Balzac and Lenin's on Tolstoy.
Eulogy

Kate Millett remembers her mother.