An intercultural exchange
Stephan Clark’s “A Literary Purge,” on teaching English literature and creative writing at a Ukrainian university, opens not with a knock on the door but a call to his mobile phone.
Stephan Clark’s “A Literary Purge,” on teaching English literature and creative writing at a Ukrainian university, opens not with a knock on the door but a call to his mobile phone.
The University of Iowa’s Borges Center hosts a conference on the Argentinian writer next week. Events are free and open to the public.
Gary Indiana’s blistering critique of Clive James’ Cultural Amnesia further whets my curiosity. (Thanks, Andrew.)
“The Synoptic Gospels — Matthew, Mark and Luke — present a conundrum that is probably unique in the annals of literary research.”
You might think a man who married thirteen (or so) times wouldn’t have much energy to devote to anything but women, but in the early 1940s my mom’s father (above, left) was founding president of the Dallas Cutters Local Union, part of the Garment Workers’ Union. When my grandmother met her future husband, they both worked for Justin McCarty. She . . .