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The World as He Saw It V. S. Naipaul: 1932-2018by Park MacDougald in Criticism The Point In late 1979, V. S. Naipaul, then middle-aged and of some literary stature, traveled to the newly declared Islamic Republic of Iran for what would eventually become his travelogue Among the Believers. He hated the place, beginning with his guide, a man named Sadeq: He was in his late twenti..

‘I Understand Best Through Writing’: An Interview with Crystal Hana Kim - InterviewBy Nicole Chung HazlittAugust 7, 2018 The author of If You Leave Me on the Korean War, listening to your family stories, and the cost of survival. Related BooksAuthor photo by Nina Subin Nicole Chung Nicole Chung’s memoir All You Can Ever Know will be published in... Follow @nicole_soojung ..

Does Literature Help Us Live?Tim Parks NYR Daily, August 3, 2018, 7:00 am Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France/Bridgeman ImagesAn illustration showing St. Marcia painting a self-portrait, from De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccaccio, fifteenth century Is literature wise? In the sense, does it help us to live? And if not, what exactly is it good for? One way into that questi..

Religious Faith Turns Monstrous in R. O. Kwon’s “The Incendiaries”A début novel explores a violent cult and the comforts of belief.By Laura Miller The New Yorker July 30, 2018 In R. O. Kwon’s novel, a campus oddball emerges as a charismatic cult leader. Photograph by Mimi Plumb for The New Yorker “People with no experience of God tend to think that leaving the fait..

"적폐 청산? 지금 설쳐대는 '정의'의 시세 얼마나 오래갈까"조선일보 정상혁 기자 입력 2018.07.25 03:01 소설 '이 세상 만세' 펴낸 김원우, 포퓰리즘 난무하는 현시대 풍자 "도대체 '적폐'의 정의가 무엇인가…. 그것은 이미 오래전부터 '나쁜 제도'로 이 땅의 곳곳에서 뻔뻔스러운 기득권을 행..

The strange cult of Emily Brontë and the 'hot mess' of Wuthering Heights Brontë was no romantic child of nature but a pragmatic, self-interested Tory. Why is she still adored for her ‘screeching melodrama’ of a novel? Kathryn Hughes The Guardian Sat 21 Jul 2018 08.59 BST Heroine chic … Shannon Beer as Catherine Earnshaw in the 2011 TV adaptation of Wuthering Heights...

“Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum KorzhavinBy Masha Gessen The New Yorker June 25, 2018 Some of the most searing poems by Korzhavin, who has died, at the age of ninety-two, focus on his decision to go into exile, to America, in the seventies. Photograph by Sputnik / Alamy A Russian poet died in North Carolina, on Friday. His name wa..

The Age of Acceleration: An Interview with Martin Amis Scott Timberg interviews Martin Amis LARB JUNE 21, 2018 WHILE HE’S BEST KNOWN for his novels — The Rachel Papers (1973), Money (1984), The Information (1995) — Martin Amis is one of the finest essayists and critics working in English today. His latest collection, The Rub of Time (2017), assembles pieces going back to..

Shakespeare’s Worlds of Science New scholarship reveals a Bard brooding over the science of his day. What can we learn from his vision of cosmic upheaval? Natalie Elliot The New Atlantis, Number 54, Winter 2018, pp. 31-50 In Act V of Hamlet, after Hamlet has killed Polonius, Ophelia has died, and Hamlet has returned to Denmark from his murderous trip to England, he happens u..

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