A writer’s mind. Thoughts on Orhan Pamuk.
Culture grants no monopolies on great writing. While Europe has grabbed the lion’s share of the Nobel Prizes in literature — over 70% since 1901, more recent winners include writers …
Culture grants no monopolies on great writing. While Europe has grabbed the lion’s share of the Nobel Prizes in literature — over 70% since 1901, more recent winners include writers …
Preface 18 years ago, I spent a day at a long, scuffed wooden table in the Barbados Archives. The table was stacked with baptism records of 11 parishes – a …
The ghost of Albert Einstein occasionally hovers somewhere in upstate New York. Michael Bungay Stanier, the founder and senior Partner of Box of Crayons, was vacationing at a cabin that …
The very mention of the phrase “British Romantic Poetry” is bound to elicit a collective wince. A bit of literary forensics will shed some perspective and hopefully some insight into …
Typically the purveyor of Shakespeare’s Sonnets is likely to be a dewy-eyed romantic or a reedy-looking professor of English with a corduroy sport jacket with reinforced elbows. Well, since I …
In late November 1961, a 29-year-old John Updike finished the draft of his short story, In Football Season. Since we share equally aquiline noses, this story has always been among …