Month: July 2013
Hot
This is the hottest day in London so far this summer, or in the last seven years. But you know what? Somewhere else in the world it is hotter. Like […]
A Fine Neustadt
Does winning an international prize count as abroad? The Neustadt prize “was established in 1969 as the Books Abroad International Prize for Literature, then renamed the Books Abroad / Neustadt […]
Pirate Queen
K.V. Johansen went to Macedonia to promote a translation of her children’s book, Torrie and the Pirate-Queen. Her trip was supported by the Canada Council for the Arts. Which got me […]
Land of the Lumberjack
A quick search of UK media to try to get a little fact — how many people turned up at the Canada Day celebrations in Trafalgar Square — was frustrating. […]