Author Biography: Orhan Pamuk

Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul in 1952 and grew up in a large family similar to those which he describes in his novels Cevdet Bey and His Sons and The Black Book, in the wealthy westernised district of Nisantasi. As he writes in his autobiographical book Istanbul, from his childhood until the age of [...]

Classic Novel: Robinson Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719 and sometimes regarded as the first novel in English. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character, an English castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island, encountering natives, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. This device, presenting an [...]

History of Indonesian literature

Indonesian literature refers to written or literary works produced in Indonesia. The works, which are transmitted orally, can be seen in the article Oral tradition of Indonesia.
During its early history, Indonesia was the centre of trade among sailors and traders from China, India, Europe and the middle east. Indonesia was then the colony of the [...]

The Bastard of Istanbul

Book Review by Dmetri Kakmi
When Elif Safak’s latest novel was released in her home country, she was arraigned and accused of insulting Turkish identity. The charges were fortunately withdrawn; had she been charged, she could have faced up to three years incarceration, this in the latter stages of pregnancy. Safak escaped imprisonment, but the death [...]

On Repeat: The Mobius Strip of Grief in Bruce Springsteen’s The Rising

by Gabriel Milner
As the coup d’ grace in Ronald Reagan’s 1984 reelection campaign, the incumbent President appropriated Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.”, perverting the chorus’ cynicism and vitriol into a chauvinist Republican rallying cry. In summarily ignoring the narrative of post-Vietnam, post-industrial malaise that belied the exuberant, synthesizer-addled song, the Gipper set off perhaps [...]

Granta 92: The View from Africa

Africa is too large and diverse for generalizations. It has fifty-four nations, five time zones, at least seven climates, more than 800 million people and, according to the latest diligent research, maybe 14 million proverbs. South Africa and Burkina Faso have as much in common as Spain and Uzbekistan. And yet people do generalize; Africa [...]

Granta 97: Best of Young American Novelists 2

Granta’s list of the twenty-one Best Young American Novelists is out now.
The spring issue of Granta magazine, Granta 97: ‘Best of Young American Novelists 2′, is devoted to their new work—a revealing insight into a new generation of American writing which shows, beside its talent, what bothers and inspires the imagination of modern America.
Read extracts [...]

Find Literary Magazine around the world

I used to find literary information from a magazine. In my country, Indonesia, we hard to find any litarary magazines, it isn’t that they’re not sould in some bookstores, but it’s caused there only a very little literary magazine that provide good quality information, both in writing style and its contents.
So that why, I [...]

Freud and his works: The Adventure of the psychoanalysis

Hors-Série n°1 – 1er semestre 2000, Magazine LittéraireInaugurating the XXe century with ” the Interpretation of the dreams “, Freud opens a royal way. The discovery of unconscious shakes the reign of the Reason and invites the men with a new experiment of themselves. Vast adventure where are revealed the most secret mechanisms to be [...]

Magazine littéraire: Travel to Italy

By Pascal Bonafoux The Literary Magazine n°466July-August 2007
A history of l’art in l’Italie of the Rebirth which is read like a detective novel.
C’est l’été, the time of the holidays, of the voyages, and, among the destinations known as tourist, Tuscany and Florence are not most inconsistent. Whoever will have made [...]