My current NPR appreciation is of the late, great Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North, an engaging and complicated novel, by turns combative and wistful, about two men who leave the Sudan to study in England and afterward belong in neither place. As Laila Lalami observes in her introduction to the New York Review of Books reissue, the . . .
I’m in the Pioneer Valley until next Tuesday, and will post as time permits. Meanwhile, here’s a (blurry) photo of the Kindle ads that are invading the New York City subway.
For the Japan issue of Words Without Borders, editor Juliet Grames offers an appreciation of Satoshi Azuchi’s classic 1981 business novel, Supermarket.
Susan Orlean may respond at length to Baum’s Twitter-plaint against The New Yorker, which didn’t re-up his contract.
Derek Walcott, citing “low tactics,” withdraws candidacy for Oxford poetry slot after sexual harassment claims. (Via.)