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Literary Themes

Stemming from … Nowhere?

by Jascha Kessler

March 26th, 2007

To sum up in a phrase the true and deepest character of Lawrence’s genius, it was given by his close friend Aldous Huxley in an introduction to the first collected letters shortly after his death: he was a mystical materialist. And thereon hangs the tale I shall unfold.

Lola! Lola! Lola!

by Jascha Kessler

March 26th, 2007

The notion of Art’s secular epiphany takes us to Vladimir Nabokov, a reader of Joyce. As I recall, it was about 1956 or so that an excerpt of his then unpublishable LOLITA appeared in an early number of Anchor Review.

The Life of R.K. Narayan

by Nandan Datta

March 26th, 2007

R.K. Narayan

Narayan’s fiction rarely addresses political issues or high philosophy. He writes with grace and humor, about a fictional town Malgudi and its inhabitants; and their little lives. Narayan is a classic teller of tales; an enduring appeal springs from his canvas where common men and women of all times and places are joined [...]

Nick Bottom’s Blessing

by Jascha Kessler

March 26th, 2007

The relativism that relishes diversity for diversity’s sake is one that eschews æsthetic judgment or choice. Both however are necessary.

Reflections On the Work of Paul Auster

by Garan Holcombe

March 25th, 2007

Paul Auster is a writer, who like Beckett is obsessed with identity and the way it is constructed out of and through the medium of stories, words, or even the thinnest of airs.

Life Without Max: The Genius of W.G. Sebald

by Garan Holcombe

March 25th, 2007

Other writers such as Geoff Dyer and Alain de Botton have also established themselves as exponents of a similar type of hybrid writing style. Yet they are more obviously producing non-fiction and neither has written anything to rival Austerlitz, the best of Sebald’s work.

Festival of the Earth: Rabindranath Tagore’s Environmental Vision

by Nandan Datta

March 16th, 2007

I knew it occurred every Autumn. And every Autumn I intended to go. And after many trials and as many errors, I finally made it one August. It was the festival of the earth.

Watchman, What of the Night?

by Jascha Kessler

March 16th, 2007

The novel as a perpetually-remade form of high style and sophistication is, in our commerce, scarcely recognized, let alone understood.

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