Articles by Sonya Chung
January 29, 2010
Brodsky’s Cat: Andrey Khrzhanovsky’s A Room and a Half 2
A Room and a Half not only allows for the fictional Brodsky’s particular nostalgia, but seems to suggest it as the indispensable poetic impulse.
January 16, 2010
Contemporary Arabic Novels 0
Claudia Roth Pierpont writes about the contemporary Arabic novel in this week’s New Yorker, highlighting Iraqi, Palestinian, and Egyptian examples.
January 14, 2010
Edwidge Danticat on Earthquake in Haiti 0
Video of Haitian American novelist Edwidge Danticat talking about the earthquake in Haiti at Democracy Now.
January 12, 2010
Sex, Seriously: James Salter Trumps the Great Male Novelists 25
It’s been said that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” The same might be said for sex, and even more aptly when it comes to writing about writing about sex.
January 7, 2010
Elif Batuman on Reading the Russians 0
Essayist and Russian literature scholar Elif Batuman in an interview with the Boston Globe on how the Russians get the combination of “funny and sad” better than the Germans, the English, or the French.
December 30, 2009
Year-End Reflections: The Great and The Good 1
It’s a thread I sense in most writers I know — that if a good amount of our first-fruit time and energy are going to be spent either in solitude or promoting our own work, we want also to make sure we are not atrophying in our human connectedness.
