DA LEGGERE
C'è anche qualcuno poco convinto dagli ultimi romanzi di Philip Roth (come me): "Axler’s artistic humbling may not reflect Roth’s experience. But whatever power and interest The Humbling possesses comes from the reader’s sense that it does reflect Roth’s apprehensions. After all, Roth is too unsparing a writer not to realize that The Humbling, like its predecessors, represents a dramatic shrinking of his fiction’s power and scope. The book is very short—a novella at most—and thinly imagined, with few surprises in plot or language. Roth’s characteristic rant—the vengeful, self-justifying, exhilarating speeches in which his characters define their anger and appetite—has shrunken, here, to Axler’s repetitive querulousness." Adam Kirsh, tablet.

PER BIBLIOFILI
Dwight Garner, Read Me: A Century of Classic American Book Advertisements (Ecco). Raccolta di vecchi annunci pubblicitari di libri. harpercollins.

John Keats: Poet and His Manuscripts, a cura di Stephen Hebron (British Library), riproduce i manoscritti di Keats in facsimile grandi e ingialliti. chicagoup.

NOTIZIE
Words Without Borders, rivista online di letteratura in traduzione (inglese), dedica il numero di novembre alla Germania, per celebrare i 20 anni dalla caduta del muro di Berlino.

iPhone users downloaded more books than games in September.

La Mattel ha messo sul mercato una versione "Twilighted" di Barbie and Ken.

E INFINE...
Lo strepitoso bis di Sonny Rollins a Milano il 2 novembre.