Living and writing in Number 305
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourns the loss of the house where she learned to write. (Chinua Achebe lived there before her family did.)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie mourns the loss of the house where she learned to write. (Chinua Achebe lived there before her family did.)
The Globe & Mail worries that we’re witnessing the end of long words. Grant Barrett has little patience for the hand-wringing.
For those still stewing over The Sopranos finale, Charles McGrath looks at other “endings without endings” in literature and film.
Joseph Clarke (my brother-in-law) sends this brief report following his recent tour of Kentucky’s Creation Museum. Also, after the photos, he and his brother Max note the museum’s contrast between the idyllic world of Genesis and the filthy and depraved modern era. Joseph invokes Derrida, and Max puzzles over the American Museum of Natural History’s new “Mythic Creatures” exhibit. . . .
On Father’s Day, writer Edwidge Danticat reflects on Operation Return to Sender, a Homeland Security crackdown that’s separating immigrant families.