By Bill Marx
Much new material since the October update for those with an interest in international literature.
My latest podcast features an interview with journalist and author Justine Hardy, whose latest book (published by the Free Press), “In the Valley of Mist: One Family in a Changing World,” continues her exploration of life in Kashmir, [...]

An assured novel that celebrates, with considerable stylistic facility, an extraordinary engagement with the history of literature.
Rex by Jose Manuel Prieto
Translated from Spanish by Esther Allen. Grove Press, 288 pages
Reviewed by Alexander Nemser

Jose Manuel Prieto’s “Rex” is an adventure through time: not historical time, or physical time, so much as literary [...]