Evan Osnos on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, and the parallels between China then and now.
About Texaco "Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." –Milan Kundera Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France’s most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form. In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people’s identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience. A joyous affirmation of literature that brings to mind Boccaccio, La Fontaine, Lewis Carroll, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Joyce, Texaco is a work of rare power and ambition, a masterpiece.
Fifty years ago on March 7, civil rights activists John Lewis and the Rev. Hosea Williams led 600 people on a march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol...
A few days ago a reader wrote to chastise me for something I’d written about Israeli construction in East Jerusalem (“Why Benjamin Netanyahu Is Wrong To Cite ‘American Values’ in Jerusalem Feud,” October 17). Since this reader happens to be a serious, thoughtful writer whose work I admire, I owe a serious answer. I had...
Fifty years after homosexuality was decriminalised, the Tate’s Queer British Art show explores a history of refuge and rebellion
On the New Yorker Radio Hour, Masha Gessen on the sweeping changes for L.G.B.T.Q. people that have taken place since the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Can the movement advance in the face of political backlash?
Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and meters. The notes are designed in particular to help readers who have been learning Greek for a relatively short time. More advanced matter, such as discussion of textual problems, is placed in square brackets at the end of the note.
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An early scene in Francis Lee’s debut feature, in which Romanian migrant worker Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu) washes semi-naked in the background while Johnny (Josh O’Connor), the moody gay son of a Yorkshire farmer, resists gazing at him, is a clear reference to an identically framed scene in Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain (2005). At one point, a character inhales the scent of another’s shirt, recalling the ending of Lee’s film. Fifty years after the Sexual Offences Act partially legalised male homosexuality in Britain, the parallels with Brokeback Mountain show how far attitudes towards LGBT people have changed – the sensibility of God’s Own Country is decidedly post-gay. Yet the explicit references to Lee’s western are unnecessary – God’s Own Country is one of the most exciting British debuts of the past decade, and homages to better-known films threaten to distract from Lee’s powerful vision.
They reveal their best bits, how the experience changed them and their most treasured piece of advice
In some ways it was inevitable that the space agency for the most car-obsessed country in the world would follow through on a program to land a car on the moon for its astronauts to use 50 years ago. The Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle - or in some parlance, the "moon buggy" - permitted greater mobility...
“Ah! What a great way to start my day, by drinking a cup of delicious hot coffee.”
Fifty years after the death penalty was abolished in Britain, we track down the places in the capital where the condemned were killed
Fifty years after the death penalty was abolished in Britain, we track down the places in the capital where the condemned were killed
In 1965 the Freedom Ride exposed shocking racism in rural NSW towns and put Indigenous rights into the national spotlight. Now a new generation is retracing its route to commemorate the activists and find out how much has changed
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including The Financial Lives of the Poets, published by Penguin. Beautiful Ruins was a New York Times bestseller. Jess Walter lives in Spokane, Washington with his family.
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