Tolka, the bi-annual journal of non-fiction based in Dublin, has just published its seventh volume. Following its stated aim in publishing ‘work that is formally promiscuous and which does not always fall into neat categories [to] encourage writers to test the creative boundaries of non-fiction’ the latest issue features four creative responses to Beckett from…
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The latest issue of the Journal of Beckett Studies is a special titled Beckett and the Anthropocene. Guest edited by Céline Thobois-Gupta, Amanda Dennis, Douglas Atkinson, and Nicholas Johnson, this volume contains contributions from Laura Salisbury, Einat Adar, Michał Kisiel, Lucas Margarit, Michiko Tsushima, Anna McMullan, Jonathan McAllister, Li Yanshi and Muhammad Saeed Nasir. As…
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The latest in the Cambridge Elements in Beckett Studies series has just been released. As outlined in the book’s abstract, Beckett and Cioran, by Steven Matthews, discusses the association between Beckett, and the Romanian-born philosopher, E. M. Cioran. It draws upon the known biographical detail, but, more substantially, upon the terms of Beckett’s engagement with…
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From Buenos Aires comes news of the latest issue of Beckettiana, the online Spanish language magazine devoted entirely to Beckett studies. This issue, number 20, is co-edited by Lucas Margarit, María Inés Castagnino and Marcelo Lara and features articles by Bruno Clément and S.E. Gontarski, as well as a number of contributions drawn from the…
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Fresh from OR Books comes Beckett’s Children: A Literary Memoir from the pen of long-standing Beckettian Michael Coffey. Described as ‘a lyrical blend of personal memoir, father-son dialogue, and literary investigation’ the book ‘probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe’ searching for traces of various connections, including the their…
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A recent publication in the field of Beckett Studies provides us with more rich and thoughtful work from academic and practicing artist, Luz María Sánchez Cardona. A former board member of the Samuel Beckett Society, Luz has devoted much of her scholarly work on Beckett to creatively exploring themes of technology and sound in his…
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The latest publication in the Cambridge Elements series is Bad Godots: Vladimir Emerges from the Barrel and Other Interventions by veteran Beckett scholar S.E. Gontarski. According to its abstract, this volume ‘focuses on the machinery of commercial theatre, on extra-authorial interventions into the creative process and on the people and institutional forces that foster them.…
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The latest issue of the Beckett Circle, Autumn 2023, is now available to all members of the Samuel Beckett Society. Included are interviews with playwrights Hanah Khallil and Jen Barclay, an unpublished interview by Beckett biographer James Knowlson’s archive, a guide to the upcoming Society Annual conference (which will be held on-line and is free…
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Following on from the recent success of their Greek translation of Eleutheria, Thessaloniki-based Oblik Editions has just published a brand new translation of Echo’s Bones. Like its predecessor, Oστά της Ηχούς has been translated by Anastasia Deligianni, who also provides a full scholarly introduction. The handsome production is finished to the exceedingly high standards of…
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Download for free for a limited period The highly-anticipated, latest title in the Cambridge University Press ‘Elements in Beckett Studies’ series has just been released. Insufferable: Beckett, Gender and Sexuality, as its summary argues ‘rethinks the role of gender politics in the oeuvre, demonstrates Beckett’s historical importance in the development of the “antisocial thesis” in…
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