Fixed, steady twoness
What did Jesus do?: Gopnik on the never-ending effort to separate “the inspiration from the intolerance, nice Jesus from nasty Jesus.”
What did Jesus do?: Gopnik on the never-ending effort to separate “the inspiration from the intolerance, nice Jesus from nasty Jesus.”
My former professor H. Aram Veeser discusses his new biography, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, 5/19. See also Veeser’s recollection of their first meeting (last item).
Stephany Aulenback says Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal is written in an experimental style but “peopled with characters that actually have depth and layers.” See also Granta’s interview.
PEN posts video of Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, featuring Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk, and moderated by Albert Mobilio
T.S. Eliot’s letters reveal his “surprising change of plans,” from the “Do I dare?” of Prufrock, to the “awful daring of a moment’s surrender.”