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📖 Lichtenberg 世界文学日报 - 2026年03月07日
🌎 美洲文学
The New York Review of Books
- The Lie of ‘Preventive’ War
In January, during a lengthy New York Times interview with President Donald Trump, one of the paper’s reporters asked him whether he saw “any checks” to his “power on the world stage.” Yes, he answered: “There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me, and that...
- Tick, Tick…Boom!
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s history of the 1929 stock market crash reminds us that financial bubbles are inevitable—and that another one may be about to pop....
- Clown Show
In every era a certain kind of unprincipled demagogue driven by an insatiable need for attention and a sense of what will capture the public's imagination rises to the fore. In the early years of France’s Third Republic, it was the ludicrous Marquis de Morès....
- God’s Impertinent Prophets
A new history brings to light the dissenting women who wrote, preached, and testified during England’s tumultuous seventeenth century, claiming the standing to speak as excluded outsiders who had un unfiltered knowledge of God....
- China’s Leader Manqué
Chiang Kai-shek had enormous flaws as a leader, but something was nonetheless lost to China when he and his Republican government were forced into exile on Taiwan....
Paris Review - Interviews
- Tyrant Style
“This was proper writing, pretentious even. Style pervaded right down to the sentence, as if every piece was assembled from the best sentences its writer had or would ever come up with.”...
- Weird Things Occurring There
New books by Tim Altenhof, Louise Erdrich, Andrew Martin, Daniel Okrent, Rosemary Tonks, and Antoine Volodine....
- Announcing the 2026 George Plimpton and Susannah Hunnewell Prizewinners
We are thrilled to announce that Renny Gong will receive this year’s George Plimpton Prize and that Bud Smith will receive the Susannah Hunnewell Prize....
- Main Character Syndrome in Wartime
On Kamala Harris’s memoir 107 Days and the Civil War diaries of George Templeton Strong....
- On Angst
“What Lacan figures as structural alienation, Cixous writes as bodily anguish.”...
Literary Hub
- Lit Hub Weekly: March 2 – 6, 2026
If you’re done with the “men don’t read” discourse, try reading about Kristopher Jansma’s all-male book club instead. | Lit Hub Craft On Ezra Pound, Mussolini’s biggest fan: “…Pound lauded Mussolini’s accomplishments—such as reducing crime and improving Italy’s road and...
- This week’s news in Venn diagrams.
It’s the AWP Conference and Bookfair this week, and most of the Lit Hub staff has been in Baltimore. With the editors out of town, those of us not at AWP have been taking good care of the place, and...
- A mini reading list to understand what’s happening in Iran.
Today marks the seventh day of the unlawful U.S-Israel war against Iran. Like many a citizen, I’ve been struggling to understand what’s animating this latest burst of imperial violence. It’s hard to argue with un-reason. And with legal, moral, and...
- Here’s what’s making us happy this week.
Hello, weekenders. It’s been a minute. We’ve been holding our joy a bit too close to the vest over here at the Hub, with editorial apologies. But the good Fridays are back! Molly Odintz, our resident curious George, enjoyed a...
- Lit Hub Daily: March 6, 2026
Are we reviewing ourselves to death? “If someone tells me something nice, great, but otherwise, I’ve done my part. I made you a thing, world. I gave you a piece of myself.” | Lit Hub Criticism “She held all the...
The Atlantic - Books
- Pushing the Limits of Historical Fiction
In a new book, Álvaro Enrigue uses absurdity to tell a fuller truth....
- A Western That Goes Where Cormac McCarthy Wouldn’t
Álvaro Enrigue’s Now I Surrender scraps the simplistic binary of cowboys and Indians in favor of a wild, multifaceted war story....
- Why Iranians Are Weeping for a Tyrant
Both loyalists and dissidents wept over the death of Ayatollah Khamenei. This common reaction to a tyrant’s demise is a symptom of the damage they do....
- A Novel About a Secret No One Wants to Know
The wildly popular Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth returns to a dark past....
- Literature Has a Stay-at-Home-Dad Problem
Unemployable, emasculated, blundering: In novels, full-time fathers seem to always be falling short....
NPR Books
- 'Dopamine Kids' explains why children crave screens and helps them enjoy life instead
A mom and science writer offers an operating manual for parents grappling with kids' screen use and cravings for sweets....
- Mundane, magic, maybe both — a new book explores 'The Writer's Room'
Why are we captivated by the spaces where authors write? Katie da Cunha Lewin set out to explore "The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love."...
- A glimpse of Iran, through the eyes of its artists and journalists
Understanding one of the world's oldest civilizations can't be achieved through a single film or book. But recent works of literature, journalism, music and film by Iranians are a powerful starting point....
- 10 new books in March offer mental vacations
March is always a big one for books – this year is no different. We call out a handful of upcoming titles for readers to put on their radars — offering a good alternative to doomscrolling....
- This novel about family drama is so good you may want to re-read it immediately
Allegra Goodman's new novel is called This Is Not About Us, but critic Maureen Corrigan says that title is coy: Readers are bound to see aspects of themselves and their families in these pages....
🌍 欧洲文学
The Guardian - Books
- Malorie Blackman on Noughts & Crosses at 25: ‘It’s even more relevant today’
Her YA classic was inspired by racism in 1990s Britain. A quarter of a century later, she talks about success, death threats and getting shoutouts from Tinie Tempah and Stormzy‘I’m useless at this bit,” Malorie Blackman laughs, shifting awkwardly in a plum-coloured jacket and smart black trousers. I...
- António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments
With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush proseAntónio Lobo Antunes, Portuguese novelist who chronicled dictatorship and war, dies aged 83António Lobo Antunes, the Portuguese novelist ...
- Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott
Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’Amazon has withdrawn from the Paris book festival after a boycott by France’s booksellers’ association prompted a row over the company’s sponsorship of the event.The festival, due t...
- The Infamous Gilberts by Angela Tomaski review – a delicious comfort read
A decaying gothic mansion tells the story of the family who once lived there, in this pitch-perfect debut of disappearances, betrayal and despairAngela Tomaski’s debut novel is a delicious comfort read about loyalty and despair, and a gentle questioning of the nature of progress. Crumbling...
- From luxury ‘dupes’ to literary doubles: why doppelgangers are everywhere right now
AI ‘twins’, Mar-a-Lago lookalikes, Melania impersonator conspiracies … doubles proliferate in today’s culture – and nowhere more so than in a series of unsettling new novels that draw on a rich gothic tradition to tap into our paranoid times‘He was after me. Always had been. Why else would he target...
Granta Magazine
- Podcast | Christopher Bollas
‘I was not there to alleviate their suffering. I was there to listen to them.’
- Day Care
‘Day care meant sick baby. And sick baby meant she had to skip work to care for sick baby, and entertain sick baby with bad mom art.’
- Everyone Still Here
‘Here he is, he thinks, the only fucker stupid enough to be here.’
- Year of the Rat
‘For a year, I was constantly frightened. It felt like there was an exclamation mark stamped onto my brain.’
- Saraswati
‘Katrina and I had already agreed not to make eye contact during the woo-woo parts of the tour, so as not to break our cover as proper pilgrims.’
Le Monde des Livres
- « Il est temps de tout regarder et de tout réévaluer » : rencontre avec l’écrivaine Sofia Andrukhovych, à propos de son grand roman de l’Ukraine
L’écrivaine ukrainienne, qui vit toujours à Kiev avec son mari et sa fille, est de passage à Paris pour « Amadoca », traversée de l’histoire de son pays, du XXᵉ siècle au début de la guerre actuelle....
- « “Nos paroles empêchées”, des philosophes Anne-Lyse Chabert et Gabrielle Halpern, passe en revue les principaux obstacles qui entravent une compréhension réelle entre nous »
La chronique « philosophie » de Roger-Pol Droit, à propos de « Nos paroles empêchées », d’Anne-Lyse Chabert et Gabrielle Halpern....
- Le nouvel essai de l’anthropologue Jeanne Favret-Saada fait un retour passionnant sur Pierre Rivière, le parricide étudié par Michel Foucault
Dans les années 1970, l’autrice de « L’Impossible Famille Rivière » avait travaillé avec Michel Foucault sur le mémoire du parricide....
- La Foire du livre de Bruxelles en pleine tourmente politique
Le conseil d’administration de la manifestation littéraire, qui aura lieu du 26 au 29 mars, a exclu la présence d’un think tank affilié au Mouvement réformateur, un parti libéral, dont le président menace de saisir la justice....
- « La forme suspendue du roman de Malgorzata Lebda donne une langue nouvelle à une nature qui souffre »
Le feuilleton littéraire de Tiphaine Samoyault, à propos de « Vorace », de l’écrivaine polonaise Malgorzata Lebda....
Frankfurter Allgemeine - Bücher
- Interview mit Marc-Uwe Kling: „Ich kriege Zustände bei diesen Zuständen“
Nach acht Jahren kehrt das Känguru zurück. Im Interview erklärt Marc-Uwe Kling, warum die Welt seine Buchfigur braucht, wie Überreichtum die Demokratie gefährdet – und warum er Jens Spahn vor Gericht sehen will....
- Bilderbuch von Oliver Jeffers: Wenn man nun mal einen Stern als Freund hat
In seinem Bilderbuch „Wo man einen Stern findet“ erzählt Oliver Jeffers aufs Neue von ungleichen Freundschaften. Für seine Botschaft versammelt er Figuren früherer Werke – und er findet ein eindrückliches Bild....
- Von der DDR erzählen: Wir von der Generation Sinnlos
Als ich auf die Bücher dieses Schriftstellers stieß, lernte ich, über die DDR zu erzählen: Durs Grünbeins Dankesrede zum Erich-Loest-Preis....
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Er gab seine fünf Kinder ins Findelhaus
Bisweilen schien er süchtig nach Selbstanklage, Kniefall und Buße, und seine berühmteste Idee stammte von einem Freund: Volker Reinhardt zeigt den Philosophen Jean-Jacques Rousseau als Bündel von Widersprüchen....
- Jean-Claude Michéa: Der Liberalismus hat ausgedient
Der französische Philosoph Jean-Claude Michéa will linke und konservative Ideen verbinden, um die Arbeiterklasse zurückzugewinnen. International wird er inzwischen als Vordenker entdeckt. Ein Modell für die Zukunft?...
El País - Libros
- Juan Gómez-Jurado: “Mi trabajo no es elevar la literatura, sino invitar a más gente a la fiesta”
El autor superventas estrena ‘thriller’, ocasión propicia para ahondar en el personaje y descubrir qué hay detrás de este extraordinario fenómeno editorial...
- Bàrbara Mestanza, cineasta: “A quienes exigen a las mujeres que denuncien les digo: ‘Que les jodan”
La actriz presenta ‘SUCIA’ en el festival de Málaga, el documental donde vuelve a narrar la agresión sexual que sufrió y el duro proceso judicial que ha recorrido...
- XXX Festival de Jerez: Mujeres que bailan solas
En la recta final de la cita, brillan las bailaoras María Moreno y Leonor Leal, con propuestas de distinto protagonismo...
- Neurosis cubana: Jorge Perugorría llega al festival de Málaga
Leonardo Padura escribe sobre ‘Neurótica anónima’, la nueva película como director de la leyenda del cine cubano...
- Nadie ha escrito como António Lobo Antunes
La frase que durante años fue interpretada como arrogancia ha terminado por adquirir el peso de la evidencia...
🌍 非洲文学
Brittle Paper
- African Literature Scholar Grace A. Musila Will Lecture on the Aesthetics of Refusal in a Free ALA Event| March 28
The African Literature Association is hosting its next lecture on Saturday, 28 March 2026, and the speaker is Grace A. Musila, who teaches in the Department of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Her talk is titled The Aesthetics of Refusal, and it is free to attend via the AL...
- Reading Shallow Tales VI Is Next Saturday and the Lineup Is Stacked | March 14
The Shallow Tales Review is hosting its sixth literary reading, and Brittle Paper readers are officially invited. Featuring 18 African writers and critics, this year’s free virtual event will be held on Saturday, 14 March 2026. The Shallow Tales Review is an online literary journal that curate...
- Cover Reveal: Tlotlo Tsamaase’s House of Margins Is Coming and It Looks Like This
The cover for Tlotlo Tsamaase’s sophomore novel, House of Margins, is here, and Erewhon Books has set a publication date of 26 May 2026. The book follows Anaya Sebeya, a young writer invited to a prestigious residency at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil’s Pea...
- Death Is a Firefly | Obongofon Etuk | Poetry
Death is a firefly, A flick’ring cheat that glimmers in the dark, And draws us in with promises of light Deeper into pits where sorrow breeds, Where the sun is but a tale the old once told, And the moonlight stares a cold unblinking eye. A child lies dead hard by my neighbour’s door, […...
- Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera’s Voice Is on Facebook, and 33,000 People Are Listening
A Facebook page dedicated to Dambudzo Marechera has been running for years and has built a following of 33,000 people. The page uploads recordings of Marechera reading his own work and it has just completed something significant. Since June 2025, the page has been sharing a 15-part complete reading ...
The Johannesburg Review of Books
- The JRB Fiction Issue! (Vol. 9, Issue 3, December 2025)
Wamuwi Mbao • Makhosazana Xaba • Simon van Schalkwyk • Khadija Tracey Heeger • Sean Jacobs • Barbara Boswell •......
- ‘A reluctant, complicated love story spanning the globe and a myriad natural disasters’—Barbara Boswell reviews Ice Shock by Elleke Boehmer
Barbara Boswell reviews Elleke Boehmer’s Ice Shock, a novel saturated with extremes of love and increasingly calamitous climate events. Ice......
- [Sponsored] Listen to an excerpt from Cursed Daughters—the glittering follow-up to the award-winning bestseller My Sister, the Serial Killer
Cursed Daughters—the highly anticipated new novel from Oyinkan Braithwaite—is out now from Jonathan Ball Publishers! Braithwaite is a Nigerian–British novelist......
- ‘Always in search of uncompromising honesty in a compromised and compromising world’—Kevin Goddard reviews Kelwyn Sole’s latest collection of poetry, What is Owed?
Kevin Goddard reviews What is Owed? by Kelwyn Sole—a poet’s summing up of a life dedicated both to verse and......
- Can we engage with power without being corrupted by it? Sean Jacobs reviews Mahmood Mamdani’s new book, Slow Poison: Idi Amin, Yoweri Museveni, and the Making of the Ugandan State
Sean Jacobs reviews Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani, a rich and textured account of Ugandan and postcolonial African politics, and......
Saraba Magazine
- Whiskey
There will be no nightmares to threaten me with a troop of teeth. No shadows that cling onto walls & heighten all I fear. Tonight, the flesh acknowledges its episodes of panic. How often it has bred a populace of anxieties & silenced the aftermath. I uncork a Jack Daniel’s, nearly fill a...
- Them
First of all, I have changed. I am hearing voices and I know that they are not real. I’ve been smoking too much weed for far too long, and now I have damaged my brain. I have fucked up. I smoke blunts – every day from 5pm until I pass out on the sofa watching […]
- Florence
I did not marry Obadiah for love, even though such marriages were becoming fashionable. I had to get him because Florence had her toji-lined eyes on him. Florence was a better catch. Florence had finished primary school with the White men. My education was aborted at Form Two because I was beautiful...
- Alice
Minutes before entering the bookstore, I stood outside and looked through a large, dim window. My bleary vision scanned the Hot Picks’ section, the Best Sellers’ section, then through and through to all the other visible parts of the bookstore. It was while scanning that I spotted you. Behind me, K...
- The Land of Fables
We lived in the town before it became a city. Before the construction of the lifesaving bridges, which annoyed people so much that they named them Confusion. We lived in the town before 24-hour television. Before the arrival of the internet and mobile phones. Before democracy. Before fila-wearing go...
🌏 亚洲文学
China Daily - Books
- Author Weir takes readers to the moon in Artemis
Andy Weir, author of The Martian, takes readers to another desolate world, but instead of the Red Planet it's the moon, in his new novel, Artemis....
- Book Boom
The 5th China Shanghai International Children's Book Fair attested to growing interest in Chinese publications from local readers and international publishers alike....
- Sharing economy turns new page with books
From sharing bicycle to sharing car, China's sharing economy has now swept into the book industry....
- Tencent funds digital library in Kenya
The National Museums of Kenya in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization launched an open digital library for indigenous games funded by the Chinese firm Tencent Holdings Ltd on Monday....
- EU-China Literary Festival promotes cultural communications
The first EU-China Literary Festival was held in Beijing on Tuesday. By inviting 28 award-winning authors from the European Union and China, the festival set out to promote cultural exchanges between the two sides and give insights into the lives, works, and unique character of their literary tradit...
ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly
- Online Summer Arabic Translation Workshop Open for Applications
The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) Arabic Summer Workshop is now open for applications....
- Bassma Sheikho’s ‘Scream’
"No electricity tonight. / Boredom is about to kill me."...
- Translating Noir: On ‘The End of Sahara’
In this conversation with ArabLit’s Tugrul Mende, translator Alex Elinson talks about how literary prizes affect the translation landscape, the draw of detective novels, and how he hones voice in a novel with many starring characters....
- Samar Yazbek’s ‘The Silent Night-Dwellers of Damascus’
This essay, by the extraordinary Syrian writer Samar Yazbek, appears in our latest issue, SYRIA: Fall of Eternity, ed. Ghada Alatrash and Fadi Azzam....
- Part Five, Emile Habiby’s ‘The Six-Day Sextet’
On Mondays this winter, we are publishing installments of Emile Habiby's The Six-Day Sextet, which is available in an open-access, non-commercial translation by Invisible Dragoman....
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