McEwan on Rushdie, Islamism, “sweet reason”
In the current New Yorker, Ian McEwan reveals that he sheltered Rushdie after the fatwa was issued. (Online for subscribers only.)
In the current New Yorker, Ian McEwan reveals that he sheltered Rushdie after the fatwa was issued. (Online for subscribers only.)
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The Library of Congress is celebrating the bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth with a special exhibition of his most famous writings and relics (that aren’t lost to time). For those of us not in D.C., the library digitized some of its Abraham Lincoln Papers a few years ago, and you can browse them online. All three series … are of a . . .
When Muriel Spark died a few years ago, writer Katharine Weber implored me to go beyond the works I’d already read and admired — The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Finishing School — to Spark’s “utterly sublime first novel, The Comforters, written to save herself from madness. You can learn how to write your own first novel from . . .
Evidently Alain Robbe-Grillet once complained bitterly about Last Year at Marienbad, saying the director ruined his script.