December 2017 – Encyclopedia of World Literature

Is Alice Munro’s Lone Novel… Even a Novel?
“My ambition is to write a novel before I die.” When Alice Munro said this, in 1998, she was not at an age when we might expect to hear such an announcement: not 20 or 30, but a few years shy of 70, and already known as one of the world’s best short story writers. […]
What Is the Future of Black Activist Social Movements in America?
These observations aren’t intended as some holy screed about how foundation money dirties our movements—though it undoubtedly does. We should stop and ask why corporations that have made billions under US capitalism are so eager to “donate” money to activists, many of whom embrace some version of anticapitalist politics. Foundations’ financial influence has always, at […]
Death in the Present Tense: On Martha Gellhorn’s Love Letters to Ernest Hemingway
“I haven’t been in such a rage for a long time, but where can one dump one’s rage?” –Martha Gellhorn, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt * Eager to travel to Finland where, as far as Martha Gellhorn could determine, people “looked after each other’s needs and rights, with justice: a good democracy,” she noted that it […]
Personal Loss and Public Grief in the Aftermath of the Las Vegas Shooting
I was on the sideline of a soccer field two Saturdays ago, watching my 12-year-old daughter and her Novato teammates. I don’t remember much about that game, but Novato won, and one of the goals was scored by the smallest girl on the team, a quick and feisty forward who wears a long ponytail and […]
The Balloon-Hoax of Edgar Allan Poe and Early New York Grifters
On April 13, 1844, two days after the closing of the National Institute’s gala in Washington, the front page of the New York Sun barked out, ASTOUNDING NEWS! BY EXPRESS VIA NORFOLK! THE ATLANTIC CROSSED IN THREE DAYS! SIGNAL TRIUMPH OF MR. MONCK MASON’S FLYING MACHINE!!! Below the headlines the article gushed, “The great problem […]

Month: December 2017

“Insomnia”, TAHAR BEN JELLOUN.

Gonzalo Aurelio Esteva y Landero

James Joyce

10 modern Arab writers who are proving that Arabic still matters

The 10 Best Writers From Modern Turkey

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