Nostalgia, we have agreed, is embarrassing. Maybe even reactionary. The notion that some fading aspect of this or that material culture—usurped by the web—is lost, and that that is a loss is, well, not the sort of thing to mention in mixed company.
...moreThere are worse things to do this Saturday than to read or re-read William Sydney Porter—O. Henry—who died one hundred years ago today.
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The late, great Barry Hannah, writing about The Heaven of Mercury, described Watson’s writing as a “sort of calm wail” and said, “Only the Irish geniuses wrote like this.”
...more‘A writer drew a circle in the sand and stepping into it said “This is my novel,” but the circle, leaping, cut him clean through….’ —from The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera Looking at the way most African literature is presented to Western readers, you’d be forgiven for believing publishers think African literature has […]
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