Articles by Lydia Kiesling
January 31, 2012
Appearing Elsewhere 0
My review of Eowyn Ivey‘s debut novel, The Snow Child, is up at Slate.
January 23, 2012
Modern Library Revue: #33 Sister Carrie 7
In a state of temporal foreignness, it is not always easy to read the signs of the previous century.
December 15, 2011
Grand Officier Yaşar Bey 0
On December 17, Turkish author Yaşar Kemal will be decorated as a Grand Officer of the French Légion d’Honneur. Kemal received the rank of Commander in 1984. Read his contribution to our Year in Reading series here. (Via HaberTürk.)
November 22, 2011
“It was a nasty autumn morning…” 0
A thoughtful piece of fiction to mark the November 10 anniversary of Atatürk‘s death.
October 31, 2011
Felt Succeeds Where Words Fail 0
Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan collaborate on a short, creepy, bookish sex romp, animated in felt and set in Shakespeare and Company. Via The Dish.
October 19, 2011
Wanting it Bad: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides 4
On its face, The Marriage Plot appears to be a novel that mentions a lot of novels without talking about any of them. These facile, knowing references disguise the sly ways that this novel engages with its predecessors.
