DOES GLOBAL CULTURE EXIST?
Tim Parks asks if the power of global literary models, particularly in fiction, can have harmful effects on personal and national self-expression.
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Philip Roth: Enough Failure
Philip Roth’s French interview announcing the end of his writing career has just been published in English.
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THE WAY WE WERE
Robert McCrum remembers the old world of publishing and bookselling, writers, printers and agents, now, alas (perhaps) fast fading away.
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REMEMBERING WILFRED OWEN
Today is Remembrance Day. But what is it that we are remembering – the dead or “the fallen”, the pity of war or its glory, waste or “sacrifice”?
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DEAD WOOD RHAPSODY
When was it we were promised the paperless office? It seems we can’t do without the white stuff.
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THE MUSEUM OF INNOCENCE
Orhan Pamuk talks about his most recently translated novel and his Museum of Innocence project in Istanbul, based on the novel of the same name.
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JOYCE ON THE BATTER
He asked them for credit, they answered him ‘Yea’ …
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CHEAP SHOTS
AN Wilson has a bit of a laugh at the expense of victims of sexual exploitation.
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SPLITTING THE VOTE
Young Nathan Zuckerman is preaching to his father about politics, but his father has some lessons too about what the Republican party is for.
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SEEING BRIGHT PICTURES
Charlotte Brontë receives some well meant advice from a more senior literary figure, which however she finds a little confusing.