Selassie’s end
The NYTBR praises my friend Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which imagines the last days of Ethiopia’s emperor Selassie.
The NYTBR praises my friend Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, which imagines the last days of Ethiopia’s emperor Selassie.
For Katie Roiphe, like Caitlin Flanagan, dodgy polemic trumps reasoned analysis. This week: contemporary fiction is flaccid.
Reading Arthur C. Clarke’s Profiles of the Future makes Darragh McManus slightly wistful for the midcentury futurists’ naïveté and optimism.
Hilary Mantel imagines the life of Cinderella twenty years later, after the tabloids have turned on her and the prince is searching for a mistress. (See also Carol Burnett’s Snow White: 15 years later.)