...so far; all apocalyptic enough (or realistic enough, our novelist might say, terrifyingly) to set the tone Egan wants. But Egan couldn’t have known how climate change would affect Lower...
...the poets were publicly known: the poems were titled as numbered witnesses, but they were also clearly identifiable by the email address of the sender. On March 9th, the day...
...Stevens, Kay Boyle, and Thomas Merton, as well as reprinting lesser known work of Henry James, E.M. Forster, and Evelyn Waugh. New Directions published when other houses were shy on...
...for him, a grounding act: “Devotion is the closest thing I’ve ever known to a stable gender,” he writes. On page 48 comes the first of few mentions of money:...
...single one of the excluded students. And then, the university still known as Rhodes re-released Bettie’s story, that of a ‘victorious’ rape survivor; a spit in our faces, a declaration...
...of essays, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, capped his rise from the occasional introducer of republished classics to a regular columnist in the New York Times Book Review, where...
...bizarre machinery, and references to print material so obscure that it’s really known only to Trinidadian history geeks like myself. Some of the material is of dubious status—the Ramsol correspondence,...
...your mind; as you read this story-within-a-story of writers writing under the influence of a hate-drug—concocted, perhaps, by economists from the University of Chicago—you might start to think about the...
...written [cuts in again] in the interview—but it was not particularly surprising in any way. Her feelings about the Caine prize are well known, and while I couldn’t possibly comment...
...of the most fresh and important African writers that you—if you are a reader in the United States or the United Kingdom, or any other part of the Anglophone world...
...piece of criticism. Stevens gets straight to the point so … So here I go. Of course most writers pass their careers completely unnoticed by the general population, and many...
...go. Of course most writers pass their careers completely unnoticed by the general population, and many of those who toil anonymously welcome any attention that might sell a few books....
...not saying that Achebe is overrated. No African writer is more widely known and revered, but if any writer deserves it, he does: it is hard to overstate how foundational...