Familiar Stranger
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Sumana Roy— It seems so natural, in dreams and folk tales, that humans should be reborn as trees. On a bus to nowhere, I sat next to a man who… READ MORE
Tag: literary criticism
A Conversation with Michel Faïs
January 27, 2021
Earlier this month, Yale University Press published Mechanisms of Loss by Michel Faïs, translated from the Greek by David Connolly, a duet of provocative novellas that examine contemporary Greek identity and… READ MORE
Seduced by Characters—Q&A with Alberto Manguel
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Yale University Press: What is your earliest memory of connecting deeply with a literary character? How old were you, who was it, and what do you remember feeling at the… READ MORE
The 50th Anniversary of Portnoy’s Complaint
February 4, 2019
Bernard Avishai— Irving Howe famously said that the cruelest thing one could do with Portnoy’s Complaint was “read it twice.” But why reread it when the first time was unforgettable? Back… READ MORE
Sorkin on the Racing Line
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Clive James— Both The Sopranos and Band of Brothers were HBO cable productions, and their collective impact might tend to persuade us that network television was left nowhere. But it’s a law… READ MORE
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