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Literature roundup

From Atlantis Journal, David Fulton (Brunel): Hugo Williams, Self-Styled Anglo-American Poet; Josep M. Armengol (Stony Brook): Gendering Men: Re-Visions of Violence as a Test of Manhood in American Literature; and a review of Gender and Caste in the Anglophone-Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan by Antonia Navarro-Tejero. A new issue of Words Without Borders is out. A review of The Maias: Episodes from Romantic Life by Jose Maria Eca de Queiros. A review of Death at Intervals by Jose Saramago. From TED, novelist Isabel Allende talks about writing, women, passion, feminism. An exhibition inspired by Federico Garcia Lorca's beloved country house sheds new light on the poet. Is Orhan Pamuk a prophet or a poseur? A debate.