Articles by Lydia Kiesling
April 27, 2012
Let’s Translate this Thing: Murathan Mungan’s Cities of Women 11
Anglophones have a rare opportunity here for a bit of friendly cultural one-upmanship with the French: In a talk last summer, Mungan told the assembled that his French publishers rejected Cities of Women because they wanted to advertise him strictly as a novelist. The introduction of his stories and plays and poems to the market, they told him, would “confuse” the French people.
April 20, 2012
Modern Library Revue: #36 All the King’s Men 10
This novel is written so beautifully, so stylishly, and feels so American — with all the muddled greatness and shittiness that descriptor implies — that my decrepit patriotism pricked up its ears like it sometimes does when I read a stunning novel about America, in fine American English.
February 9, 2012
Lady Parts: Caitlin Flanagan and H.G. Wells on Wayward Girls 16
Upon completing A Man of Parts and Girl Land, the new offering from Caitlin Flanagan, I know that our young girls are in extreme peril: if they are not succored by their families, they will wind up in nude animal ecstasy with H.G. Wells.
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 8
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.)
