The Seattle P.I.‘s John Marshall has put together a list of books for holiday giving.
Korash Huseyin, the editor of the Kashgar Literature Review, was sentenced by the Chinese government to three years’ imprisonment for writing a political fable.
Anne Marie O’Connor has a lengthy profile of Marjane Satrapi in the Los Angeles Times.
Of Gabriel García Márquez’s new novel, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, Michiko Kakutani writes: “[It] is ballyhooed by its publishers as the first work of fiction by Gabriel García Márquez in 10 years. It turns out not to have been worth the wait.”
Syrian poet Adonis will visit Iran to give readings. He will travel with Venus Khoury-Ghata, his translator into French, and a fine poet in her own right.