Articles by Lydia Kiesling
October 7, 2011
Modern Library Revue: #76 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 6
It is a dark and lovely poem, written by the possessor of a sinister wit.
October 5, 2011
The Unlovable Nobel Novelist 0
Why don’t Turks like Orhan Pamuk? A detailed analysis here.
September 16, 2011
Modern Library Revue: #25 A Passage to India 4
This gets to the heart of both my admiration and my anxieties about this novel. How can we write across culture, or think across culture, even, in a way that is fair? The cowardly answer is that we can’t.
August 11, 2011
Dispatch from Turkey: Plagiarism Charges Levied at Award-Winning Author 17
Award-winning polyglot Turkish author Elif Şafak has been accused of plagiarism by a translator in Turkey, where her newest novel Iskender was released on August 1.
June 20, 2011
Nom de Plume: Literary History and the Curatorial Principle 19
I see it as a book for these times and no other. Our particular moment is all about managing data rather than producing it; a theme is assigned, the material assiduously curated.
April 27, 2011
Confluence of Pleasures: On Reading and Tuna Fish 15
Proust’s madeleine would have made more sense to me had Proust, upon discovering the power of the cookie, obtained a huge box and eaten them while reading all seven Chronicles of Narnia.
