Coetzee reads Norman Mailer
J.M. Coetzee rejects Mailer’s view of history “as a war between good and evil” plotted by supernatural beings, but admires his new book as historical fiction.
J.M. Coetzee rejects Mailer’s view of history “as a war between good and evil” plotted by supernatural beings, but admires his new book as historical fiction.
Filtering news and reading Solzhenitsyn in a New York prison. (Thanks, Christian.)
Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Key rocks my world. Hanif Kureishi, who’s adapted another Tanizaki work for the screen, makes me wonder why I haven’t read more.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, one of this year’s NBCC finalists, contributed her best short story yet to last week’s New Yorker.