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Parsing Middle Earth Contract, and Other News
Listen to contemporary masters such as Charles Baxter and Siri Hustvedt read ten Sherwood Anderson stories. “Most of the topography turns out to be relatively straightforward. The Ministry of Truth,...
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Orwell at the BBC, and Other News
It was all the rage! On the eighteenth-century literary vogue for suicides. “It’s pretty much all hopeless,” and other advice on writing a memoir. (Personally, I would say: throw in a few recipes.)...
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The Knight’s Tale, and Other News
A London street artist, with an apparent interest in Middle English, paints, among other motifs, scenes from The Canterbury Tales. In one day—well, a day filled with further NSA surveillance...
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Kafkaesque Toilet Paper, and Other News
Kafka cameos in a Charmin toilet paper commercial; one of those incontinent bears is a fan, apparently. “But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates...
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Under the Skin of History: An Interview with Jonathan Lee
Photo: Tanja Kernweiss Jonathan Lee’s new novel, High Dive, focuses on the events leading up to the 1984 bombing of the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, an Irish Republican Army assassination attempt...
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Mr. Coffee Mansplains, and Other News
“This is how a man makes coffee … ” The churlish “alternative facts” coming out of the Oval Office have led to an uptick in sales of 1984, which remains America’s go-to dystopian fiction: whenever...
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