Cion & the other works of Zakes Mda
South African writer Zakes Mda remains concerned with how people remember the past, says Laila Lalami, who lays his latest, Cion, against his prior novels.
South African writer Zakes Mda remains concerned with how people remember the past, says Laila Lalami, who lays his latest, Cion, against his prior novels.
As the 2007 Prix Goncourt announcement draws nigh, Emma Garman considers the tragic but exciting life of Romain Gary, the only writer to win the prestigious French literary award twice. On December 2nd, 1980, Romain Gary lay down in his Paris apartment, a synagogue-size menorah at the foot of the bed, and put a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson in . . .
Just in time for Halloween, the Baltimore-Philly Poe war goes national. True story: while the reporter was taping Helen McKenna-Uff and me at the Poe House last week we walked out the back door of the house and a black cat came slinking through Poe’s yard. Had an axe-wielding maniac followed on its heels, we would not have been surprised . . .
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