’They were suspended in a dustbowl of a terrible dream’
Lessons of hard lives were passed down to Mark Sakamoto in his grandmother’s kitchen or on road trips with his grandfather.
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Books
Whatever happened to ’the art of dress’?
Once upon a time, American women had taste and knew how to dress, argues Linda Przybyszewski in ’The Lost Art of Dress’. What happened?
The African memoirist who dared to come out
Binyavanga Wainaina is one of Kenya’s leading literary figures–and a gay man in Africa, at a time where it’s dangerous to be one
Binyavanga Wainaina reads from his coming-out chapter
The famed gay Kenyan writer reads a selection from his brave chapter, ’I am a homosexual, mum’
Proof we’ll never understand Russians
Book review: Jeff Parker’s new book is as off-kilter as a Kurt Vonnegut novel, and wholly absorbing
J.D. Salinger and the book deal that fell to pieces
Joanna Rakoff’s new book tells the story of her year as secretarial assistant to Salinger’s literary agent
A book to inspire both pleasure and paranoia
A review of The Encyclopaedia of Liars and Deceivers, by Roelf Bolt
A harrowing journey from Madhya Pradesh to Tasmania and back again
Book review of A Long Way Home, by Saroo Brierley
Novelist Colson Whitehead takes on the World Series of Poker
Review of The Nobel Hustle, by Colson Whitehead
The story behind the novel Dr. Zhivago
Russian poet Boris Pasternak’s laughed off criticisms of his epic love story: ’I just grin’