Auden, Rabelais, and “Charlie Hebdo”
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks....
W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939” once again offers not just words of comfort, but clues on how to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks....
ON ST. VALENTINE'S DAY in 1947, George Orwell expressed his misgivings about the 240-year-old marriage between England and Scotland. There were distinct rumblings, he said, and if they weren’t addressed, a violent divorce would be the outcome. Orwell put down ...
When Siegfried Sassoon, the great World War I poet, was posted in Palestine....
An Indian author, having written about China, turns her gaze to Europe....
One of the most extraordinary elegiac conversations of our time....
Nadeem Aslam's new novel, "The Blind Man's Garden," has the power to move and terrify....
THIS MONTH MARKS 25 YEARS since Jonathan Franzen made his debut as a novelist. From all accounts it was an impressive debut — the critics called The Twenty-Seventh City masterly, riveting, even visionary; The New Yorker reviewed it properly, not in its ...
A look at Jonathan Franzen’s latest book and his first on its 25th anniversary. OUR DISTRACTION: Franzen’s Kraus Project by ANDREW WINER [READ] BROWN NOISE: Franzen’s Sirens of the Subcontinent by NINA MARTYRIS [READ]...