In Burning Man, Frances Wilson aims to rescue DH Lawrence from his post-feminist infamy. “Both censored and worshipped in his lifetime,” writes the acclaimed biographer, “Lawrence’s afterlife has been one…
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The title of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Pulitzer Prize–winning debut short-story collection, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), refers to a character who translates ailments for a doctor. Lahiri continued to plumb the pain of first- and…
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“In the beginning was a scent,” writes Karl Schlögel — a “somewhat sweet, heavy aroma” that once filled the air on festive occasions in Moscow. Schlögel, a German academic specialising in…
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“Mothers taste awful,” opens Shalom Auslander’s outrageous new satire. “ . . . gamy and dry, their years seasoned with disappointment and heartbreak”.
Seventh Seltzer is the seventh son in what may be the last Can-Am…
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I had the pleasure of a pilgrimage to Dublin one year for Bloomsday, replete with the requisite pint at Davy Byrne’s, soap from Sweny’s and a Sandycove swim. James Joyce set…
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I am a competent, though not confident, cook. Like many of us, my culinary creativity has been strained by not being able to eat out since restaurants closed to…