...could buy them off Amazon, and another woman wanted to know why I thought the immigrant experience wasn't a valid one, which I hadn't actually said. I don't think writers...
...deteriorated -- and as it eventually went completely defunct. A few years ago, Penguin sort of revived the African Writers Series (at least in name), and while they initially only...
...way we know, who symbolizes the recomposition of the entire emotional sphere for the man, and, on the other side, the man, reduced to that which is known in capitalist...
...and heightens his sense of specialness. Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos. He "may not be the antichrist, but he surely looks like one of the four horsemen." Photograph:...
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...became known as a poet during her lifetime. She held close associations with many other artists, notably Eugenio Montale, who once called her “a sullen little bird,” in his 1956...
...thing, more Americans are buying books by African writers than ever have. Achebe was commonly assigned in a variety of university classes—and when Ben Okri won the Booker Prize for...
People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: 'How strange! But never mind-it's Nazism, it will pass!' And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the...
...He never says anything and he has a very weak character. But I think he has bewitched her because he pays her compliments all the time. I've gone up to...
...Photo | Penelope Mortimer, date unknown, via There is much to know about Penelope Mortimer. She was married to one man, but gave birth to two children from...
...and the dosage is lowered. Finally I am released. I come out into the world with correct patterns of speech, and for a while I see a psychiatrist and take...
...key, Dorothy, hard work and commitment. Then you take her hand and you ask her what's troubling her. It's really embarrassing, but I've got to get it off my chest,...
...the carceral state made famous in Discipline and Punish are appropriated from Jackson's (and his comrade Angela Davis') work on prisons. Jackson was murdered by prison guards in 1971....
...nature—I am the one who animalizes myself. It's not hard and comes simply. It's just a matter of not fighting it and it's just surrendering. Nothing is more difficult...