Weekly Reader

New York Times on Orwell’s diaries being blogged on WordPress.

Christopher Sorrentino reviews John Barth’s new novel in Bookforum.

A book of letters between Bernard Henri Levy and Michel Houellebecq will be published soon.

An interesting “first person” piece in The Guardian about asexuality.

Alice Ferrebe’s Digital Orientalism: Japan & Electronic Literature.

Weekly Reader

• The New York Review Of Books reviews the newest collection of Susan Sontag’s work.

• Matthew Kirschenbaum’s new book is now available for preorders at Amazon.

• I visit their site often, but until Bookslut mentioned it I didn’t realize Bookforum had a blog on their site.

Weekly Reader

I took the week off from blogging, but here is some weekend reading:

• Two from recent issues of The New Yorker: Louis Menand asks are the wrong people voting? Also, Jon Lee Anderson reports on the war against opium in Afghanistan.

• Two from the newest issue of Bookforum: Bilge Ebiri discusses comic book adaptations and Michael Wood reviews Falling Man, the newest novel from Don DeLillo.

New Reading

There are four publications I enjoy with new issues out recently: The Quarterly Conversation and Bookforum have put out their summer issues.  There are also June issues available from Bookslut and Words Without Borders.