As a U.S. citizen, I have had one reaction to the killing of Osama bin Laden.  However, as a student of literature, I have found little to say about this symbolic victory in the “War on Terror” except, perhaps, that it is extremely distracting from the research papers I should […]

We just added the online magazine for international literature, Words Without Borders, to the links section in the right column (scroll down, down, down…). Any other suggestions, for links or blogs that say something interesting about experiences with learning, speaking, and living in other languages?

Multilingual Literature submission deadline: 12/15/09!

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Center has created an online interactive site that allows you to explore the private “Writing Hut” where he did his writing. The site offers interactive features like allowing you to click on different objects to find out more about them, and “Ideas Book” buttons which allow you to guess […]

Want to read at work without getting caught? This outstanding site, readatwork.com, created by Colenso BBDO for the New Zealand Book Council, offers an innovative approach to getting your readerly fix at the office. It’s basically a Flash application: with a click of a button you’re taken to a faux Windows XP desktop […]

While I was wading through the myriad book exhibits at the carnivalesque MLA conference in San Francisco (7000+ people here, they say), I happened across the very cool-looking Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations published in 2000 by the New York University Press, edited by Marc […]

The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s Wired Campus ran an article today introducing ShelfLife@Texas. The whole point of the blog is to bring new life to the authors and books produced on the U of T campus or, as the first post on October 30 says, to allow “readers to […]

The Indian government recently decided to confer “classic” status to a select few languages, using the yardstick that a language has to have been around at least 1500 years in order to make the cut. The official designation of a language as “classic” comes with a sizable grant to be used for its […]