Jonathan Raban on Obama
“As an Obama supporter, I tremble for him as one trembles for the changing fortunes of the hero of an intensely gripping picaresque novel.”
“As an Obama supporter, I tremble for him as one trembles for the changing fortunes of the hero of an intensely gripping picaresque novel.”
Gatsby’s Hydroplane is a funny mash-up of academic literary criticism and “scientific” computer modeling. See also.
Excerpts from stories in Granta’s 100th anniversary issue — including Barnes’, Homes’, Lessing’s, and Rushdie’s — are online.
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Scientist expelled from vile creationist film EXPELLED while guest, one Richard Dawkins, walks right in. (Thanks, PH.)