Michael Orthofer
@MAOrthofer
M.A.Orthofer = the Complete Review + the Literary Saloon β and the novel, ππππππ ππ πΊπππ§ (2024)
"I am told, by someone who teaches young writers, that right now there are bold young novelists doing important work." nytimes.com/2025/07/10/opi⦠Well, then, we're all set .....
New review: Gerhard RΓΌhm's 'cake & prostheses' complete-review.com/reviews/austriβ¦
Check out the @NYUpress summer sale! Almost all LAL titles are 60% off through August 31 π nyupress.org/sale25-libraryβ¦
New review: Lee Child's 2005 Jack Reacher-novel, 'One Shot' complete-review.com/reviews/thrillβ¦
Terrific overview in Scroll of 10 years of Literary Activism, with contributions from poet Charles Bernstein, critic and biographer Jon Cook, novelist and critic Saikat Majumdar, and critic Laetitia Zecchini that are fresh and full of insight: scroll.in/article/108409β¦
New review: HonorΓ© de Balzac's 'The Girl with the Golden Eyes' complete-review.com/reviews/balzacβ¦
Trying to get hold a copy of every Latin text by Petrarch. Fun project, still a long way to go.
New review: the "last novel" by @NobelPrize laureate Rabindranath Tagore, 'The Laboratory' complete-review.com/reviews/bengalβ¦
Recently released @UNESCO report on 'The African Book Industry' unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0β¦ [pdf] is a great overview, packed with information. Comes with this acknowledgement; great that it got this support, but I suspect we're not going to see much more of this going forward...
![MAOrthofer's tweet image. Recently released @UNESCO report on 'The African Book Industry' unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0β¦ [pdf] is a great overview, packed with information. Comes with this acknowledgement; great that it got this support, but I suspect we're not going to see much more of this going forward...](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GvvXNJ1XsAEk90x.jpg)
New review: 'Fish Letters (and other stories)' by Goderdzi Chokheli complete-review.com/reviews/georgiβ¦
New review: Yasmina Reza's novel, 'Serge' complete-review.com/reviews/rezay/β¦