R.I.P. John Updike
Shocking — despite his age, he seemed somehow immortal — but John Updike has died after a battle with lung cancer. (Thanks, David.)
Shocking — despite his age, he seemed somehow immortal — but John Updike has died after a battle with lung cancer. (Thanks, David.)
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Jamaica Kincaid’s The Estrangement reminds me why my adulation reached such heights, I once named a cat after her. (Full text; thanks, Davis.)
Written as a divertissement for the Bloomsbury group, “Freshwater” proves that Virginia Woolf had a light side, says Charles Isherwood.