Francophone Africa : blogging about African literature in French, one book at a time - Elites TV
The Best of blog Awards 2010 shone light on a sleuth of fascinating blogs in eleven languages. A close runner-up for the Best blog in French award is Chez Guangoueus (fr). Réassi Ouabonzi blogs about African and diaspora litterature in French from a reader’s perspective since 2007, one book at a

New Book Explains the Need for Socialism in a Brutal World - Charleston City Paper
Nobody has talked about socialism in this country in decades until the Teabaggers started screaming the word every time two or more or them got together. I never thought these ignorant people understood much about socialism (or anything else, for that matter). Now a new book by Alan Maass (with an

Book review: 'The Invisible Bridge' by Julie Orringer - Los Angeles Times
into the summer holidays — one in which you can lose yourself without the guilty suspicion that you're slumming — then Julie Orringer's "The Invisible The Invisible Bridge," by contrast, is in every admirable sense an "ambitious