Recommended Reading: Robyn Creswell and Bernard Haykel on why jihadists write poetry.
Holy Verse
Little Prince, Lots of Translation
This month, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's iconic children's book Le Petit Prince will be translated into Hassanya, a rural Arabic dialect spoken in portions of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Senegal, and Mali. This marks the 300th translation of the book.
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A Big New Release Tuesday
Lots of anticipated books hitting shelves today. At the top of the list is Michael Lewis's look at the recent financial calamity, The Big Short. Also new today, Chang Rae Lee's The Surrendered, Ron Rash's story collection Burning Bright, Lionel Shriver's So Much for That, and James Hynes' Next, about which we have noted some intriguing Twitter buzz. New in paperback are Victor LaValle's The Big Machine and Dave Eggers' The Wild Things.
Calling All Foer-Besotted 10-Year-Olds
Spotted on the streets of New York: a casting call for a "10-13 year old Caucasian male" to play protagonist Oskar Schell in Stephen Daldry's upcoming film adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Notable Goyim Tom Hanks and Sandra Bullock are attached to the project, as Oskar's parents.
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Thomas M. Disch Appendix
At Waggish, David Auerbach has published an appendix to his recent piece for The Millions on Thomas M. Disch.
On Children’s Lit
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YA Origins
There's been a lot of talk about Young Adult writing lately - we've covered it here and here and here - but where did YA come from, anyway? The New Yorker profiles writer S.E. Hinton, whose debut novel The Outsiders launched the genre, by way of answer.
Can we please have a moratorium on Westerners using the terms “Jihadi”/”Jihad”/”Jihadists”? It principally refers to an inner spiritual struggle, not acts of terrorism.