Edward Said, the man, revealed
My former professor H. Aram Veeser discusses his new biography, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, 5/19. See also Veeser’s recollection of their first meeting (last item).
My former professor H. Aram Veeser discusses his new biography, Edward Said: The Charisma of Criticism, 5/19. See also Veeser’s recollection of their first meeting (last item).
Stephany Aulenback says Eleanor Catton’s The Rehearsal is written in an experimental style but “peopled with characters that actually have depth and layers.” See also Granta’s interview.
PEN posts video of Utopia and Dystopia: Geographies of the Possible, featuring Jonathan Lethem, Inga Kuznetsova, Eshkol Nevo, and Andrzej Stasiuk, and moderated by Albert Mobilio
T.S. Eliot’s letters reveal his “surprising change of plans,” from the “Do I dare?” of Prufrock, to the “awful daring of a moment’s surrender.”
Here, in an MIT lecture, Jamaica Kincaid reads and discusses some of her early contributions to The New Yorker’s “Talk of the Town.” She recalls being astounded when her work started to appear in the magazine, because at the time she was reacting against the way everyone else there was writing. One of her pieces, about a book reception for . . .