Articles by Henriette Lazaridis Power
January 9, 2012
The Story Behind the Story: An Appreciation of Authors’ Acknowledgments 14
At their best, acknowledgements can be finely-wrought short stories with the author as protagonist. At least one acknowledgements has made me cry.
June 16, 2011
On Bloomsdays Past 0
We brought the world of Ulysses to, say, the Tivoli, or the Grand Canal, or the Art Museum and the Rocky statue.
February 3, 2011
Ismail Kadare and the Girl in the Bridge 2
When I was a child traveling to my family’s ancestral home in Northern Greece, we would always come to a point in the road where the left went north to Albania and the right went northeast into the Pindus mountains.
June 22, 2010
The Elusive Omniscient 10
What seems key about the novel is that what we think of as a historical evolution—or a descent from a unified to a fragmented perspective—isn’t an evolution at all. In fact, the novel has always been insecure. It’s just that the manifestation of its insecurity has changed over time.
