Letters from an Iris Murdoch affair
Iris Murdoch’s letters to David Morgan, a student who became her lover, are collected in With Love and Rage, a new book out tomorrow.
Iris Murdoch’s letters to David Morgan, a student who became her lover, are collected in With Love and Rage, a new book out tomorrow.
Edith Grossman is one of the finest literary translators working today, says Jessa Crispin, but her new book on the art is disappointing.
Is Amitava Kumar’s Home Products the first English-language novel to be written in conversation with Hindi?
I’ve been gearing up for Martin Stannard’s Muriel Spark biography by revisiting (and reading more of) her own fiction, which was evidently treated as unsaleable for much of her career. In 1999, she told Janice Galloway: “I used to be sold the idea that what I was writing was some little cult and people wouldn’t buy the things. Publishers used . . .
R.I.P. Barry Hannah. His reluctant rules for writing. Crews on Hannah. 2008 profile. Paris Review interview. 1993 audio interview. Three-bean soup. His protégé, Jack Pendarvis.