From Eurozine, while the Great Estonian Novel has yet to be written, the range of fiction in Estonia is sufficiently wide to serve as an indicator of the post-communist country's hopes and fears, anxieties and obsessions. Freeing Theater in Belarus: One company's current-day battle against authoritarianism. Let us now read about famous men: Ina Hartwig on the profusion of new German biographies about great, dead, male writers. From New Statesman, the new wave: Andrew Hussey on the North African novelists at the gates of "Fortress Europe". Don't look down on Canadian literature: Jean Hannah Edelstein used to think there wasn't much more to Canadian culture than Margaret Atwood and empty space. D'oh! From Anthurium, a review of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies by Mimi Sheller, and a review of Twentieth Century Caribbean Literature: Critical Moments in Anglophone Literary History by Alison Donnell. V. S. Naipaul among the cannibals: A review of A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (and more and more).
