Articles by Lydia Kiesling
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.
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.