Voice and Intimacy in Robinson’s <i>Lila</i>
“Someday, she would tell him what she knew.”
Marilynne Robinson writes like fine wine: she takes her time in years and the
result is rich, heady prose. Gilead won the Pulitzer 10 years
Literature
Proust’s English Muse
The Scottish man of letters, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, is mostly known for
introducing Marcel Proust’s multi-volume novel, In Search of Lost Time, to the
English-speaking world. His translation is still thought
<i>The Musical Brain</i>: Detectives of Infinity
“How, then, can I translate into words the limitless Aleph, which my floundering
mind can scarcely encompass?” – Jorge Luis Borges in “The Aleph”
In the collection of Roberto Bolaño’s nonfiction, Between Parenthesis,
Guy In Your MFA
One pretentious, mansplaining, literary tweet at a time, Guy In Your MFA
[https://twitter.com/guyinyourmfa] has become an internet phenomenon. Run by
Dana Schwartz [http://www.danaschwartzdotcom.com/], since its inception last
Noteworthy: Clive James’s Life Sentence
The Australian poet and critic Clive James has just released two new books—a
fine way to start a year when everyone thought you’d be dead
[http://www.theguardian.com/culture/clive-james]