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As a Golden State native, I've grown accustomed to these barbs. Of course, Harvard students aren't the first ones to come up with such zingers. Over a century ago, Rudyard Kipling called San Francisco a "mad city" full of "perfectly insane people." Frank Lloyd Wright once hypothesized that...
The Holder of the World is rife with literary allusions and parentage, a new approach to literary technique for Mukherjee, whose earlier works have not been self-referential as literary texts. The described narrative structure is nearly identical to that of Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; in this...
Said (pronounced Sigh-eed) owes his fame partly to his cultural criticism, notably his 1978 book Orientalism, a study of how ideas and images about the Arab world were contrived by Western writers and why. Now comes Culture and Imperialism (Knopf; $25). A plum pudding of a book, with excursions...
A: I wish them well I think that they're trying to find ways of expressing their own take on their experiences. I think Cristina Garcia's work is more ambitious, although I like Cisneros. I like the individuality of their work, and I wish them well. I'd like...
In time, it begins to become clear that the bandaged European, on his sickbed in 1945, stands for many things that are lost and wounded. And in the dying light of Empire, Ondaatje shows us the end of one world and the birth of another -- deracinated, post-national -- where people...