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Inspired by his late friend Eudora Welty’s anthology The Norton Book of Friendship, Donald brings psychological and philosophical literature on friendship together with primary sources culled over his prolific career as a Lincoln scholar...
...enraptured by the celebrity-industrial complex and the importance of being famous that goes with it. Rather than examine the great works of the past, they seek to study the trivialities of the present and perhaps secure themselves a place in it. What matters is not being a great scholar driven to find the truth, but rather to appear on “Good Morning America” hawking a book or being rewarded with a cameo in The Matrix Reloaded. This has to change if students are to receive the educations that these costly tuitions should be providing. Curriculums...
Gates says Soyinka was the first person who told him he could be a scholar and critic of African literature...
What Desai catches more deeply, though, is all that can't be seen or said. She gives us her pilgrims from the inside out, illuminating their hopes but wise to their illusions. And as Eric, a budding scholar of immigration, learns about more final passages, there is a musk of Lawrencian magic hovering around the social comedy. The terrain of Anglo-Indian confusion that Desai helped discover is now looking close to overcrowded. In The Zigzag Way, she stakes out new ground and so yields discoveries about places not found on any map. --By Pico Iyer
...first year in Japan, the open, young American met, by chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without...