Writers and reality links
Blandly ignoring the agony of “female circumcision”: Ms Llewellyn-Davies compared genital mutilation to a white wedding in her chillingly misleading narration for the film Masai Women, a Disappearing World production.
Salman Rushdie thinks blog reviews are good for new writers and thus books
On the joys of email.
V S Naipaul was greatly appreciative of the friendship of older writer Anthony Powell: then Powell died and Naipaul finally got around to reading Powell’s 12 book magnum opus …
Clive James seeks to remember and bring alive cultural gems against the forces of forgetting and depradations of ideology: While James professes to resist the siren song of ideology, which petrifies by way of a “premature synthesis”, Cultural Amnesia espouses a humanist ethic, which provides the banner under which his one-man army rides. For James, humanism stands in opposition to totalitarianism; in its fealty to the irreducible particularities of the individual
About Louis Auchincloss, for 60 years the American novelist of the rich and privileged.
About Jack Kerouac and On the Road, not a novel about rebels: The Beats were not rebels; they were misfits. … The Beats were men who wrote about their feelings.
Hitch demolishes Roth’s latest novel. Which displays a mind that one doesn’t really want to know.
About Stephen Pinker’s latest book and language as a window into the mind and human nature. On why believing there is no such thing as human nature is just silly.
Salman Rushdie thinks blog reviews are good for new writers and thus books
On the joys of email.
V S Naipaul was greatly appreciative of the friendship of older writer Anthony Powell: then Powell died and Naipaul finally got around to reading Powell’s 12 book magnum opus …
Clive James seeks to remember and bring alive cultural gems against the forces of forgetting and depradations of ideology: While James professes to resist the siren song of ideology, which petrifies by way of a “premature synthesis”, Cultural Amnesia espouses a humanist ethic, which provides the banner under which his one-man army rides. For James, humanism stands in opposition to totalitarianism; in its fealty to the irreducible particularities of the individual
About Louis Auchincloss, for 60 years the American novelist of the rich and privileged.
About Jack Kerouac and On the Road, not a novel about rebels: The Beats were not rebels; they were misfits. … The Beats were men who wrote about their feelings.
Hitch demolishes Roth’s latest novel. Which displays a mind that one doesn’t really want to know.
About Stephen Pinker’s latest book and language as a window into the mind and human nature. On why believing there is no such thing as human nature is just silly.