The Archbishop & the Inquisitor
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been writing a book about Dostoevsky.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been writing a book about Dostoevsky.
The New York Stories of Edith Wharton is out from NYRB Classics early next month, with an introduction from Roxana Robinson.
Sorry guys, no time for posting today. But if you haven’t read Kevin Kinsella’s excellent interview with Anya Ulinich, please do so now. Alex Lencicki writes in to second the Petropolis recommendation: A few years ago I took a writing class, and on our first day the people from the previous class read. Anya was one of the readers, and . . .
Here Kevin Kinsella interviews the fascinating Anya Ulinich, whose first novel, Petropolis, he’s been recommending to me for months. I defy you to read the interview and not come away with the sense that you should pick up a copy immediately. (The image below, Marx, Bird, Monster, is one of Ulinich’s own paintings.) Imagine my surprise upon learning that someone . . .
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