Allison D. asked: Published to nearly unanimous praise, Kavalier & Clay takes the reader into the mean streets of Pre-and-Post WW2 Brooklyn through the Golden Age of comic books. The novel follows the lives of two cousins: Joe Kavalier, a Czech artist and recent immigrant to New York, and Sam Clay, ...
I had trouble getting into John Updike's writing. As an undergrad, I did the thing where I tried to search out my identity through literature, and this led me (scarily) first to Bukowski, then (understandably) to Jonathan Safran Foer, then (scarily, again, in terms of personality, even though he's i ...
BRIAN ENO Counterpunch Sunday, January 4, 2009 It's a tragedy that the Israelis - a people who must understand better than almost anybody the horrors of oppression - are now acting as oppressors. As the great Jewish writer Primo Levi once remarked "Everybody has their Jews, and for the Israelis it's ...
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