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From polarization to universal respect
Seven of the eight journalists murdered in 1983, subsequently investigated by the Vargas Llosa Commission Great attention is currently being paid to the literary skills and political influence of Mario...
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How novelists write novels — and survive
Matthew Gallaway, novelist & intrepid interviewer of novelists Funny and incisive, The Awl blog — whose aspirational tag line is “Be less stupid.” — has inaugurated what will be a series of posts...
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Nov 9th: Alberto Manguel in London
SCOPE readers of a literary bent who are in London in early November may wish to see Alberto Manguel read from his new book, All Men Are Liars, and discuss both lies and literature with author Tibor...
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Recent best: novels
Ian Garrick Mason: I’d like to thank Matthew Gallaway for inaugurating a semi-regular feature on SCOPE‘s blog. We call it “Recent best”, and it will be comprised simply of personal recommendations, by...
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Because reality is weird
Master of "weird fiction", H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) When I was fourteen or so, I came across the works of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft in a maze-like used-book shop that my parents used to take me...
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Memories and four-letter words
The regional winners of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize were announced a few hours ago, and while the two African books honoured (and still in the race for the overall prize, to be announced on May 21)...
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Recent best: Aminatta Forna
London-based novelist Aminatta Forna is the award-winning author of The Memory of Love, Ancestor Stones and The Devil that Danced on the Water. The Memory of Love recently won the 2011 Commonwealth...
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Interesting and ambitious
Worth checking out: ZAM, a high-energy magazine about Africa with a cheeky sense of style, some great art direction, and a focus on the continent’s most interesting and ambitious designers, artists,...
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Where Milton slept
Travellers of a bookish bent will find a new website from Standford English professor Martin Evans to be of great use in guiding them to all of the spots in London where any of fifty great authors once...
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The factual refracted
Over the past century a important minority of writers have turned their minds to the philosophy of literature itself, or even simply of books — Jorge Luis Borges’ 1941 short story “The Library of...
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A world of icons, not alphabets
Reviving a dead language is not normally a recommended practice in communications: road signs in Latin (say, NON DEXTER VICISSIM instead of “No Right Turn”) are certain to cause more accidents than...
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Night lights
“Viaduct #7″, by Kristopher Grunert/Gallery Stock (http://www.grunertimaging.com/) As a child growing up among the lakes and forests of Minnesota in the 1970s, the night sky made a big impression on...
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