Jean Genet

Two Paths for the Novel

newsvine.com
09-Nov-2008
        

From two recent novels, a story emerges about the future for the Anglophone novel. Both are the result of long journeys. Netherland, by Joseph O'Neill, took seven years to write; Remainder, by Tom McCarthy, took seven years to...

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"Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel" dives into a madcap life cut short

nwsource.com
05-Nov-2008
        

Edmund White's short biography "Rimbaud: The Double Life of a Rebel," looks at the man behind the legend of the short-lived, anything-goes French poet. By Michael Upchurch Seattle Times book critic "Rimbaud: The Double Life of...

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newyorker.com: Bruce Myers as narrator and interrogator in “The Grand Inquisitor.” newyorker.com

Hilton Als: Peter Brook on the politics of belief.

newyorker.com
03-Nov-2008
        

As a child, the director Peter Brook, the son of Latvian Jews who emigrated to Britain in 1914, showed an interest in photography, along with other aspects of the mechanics of illusion. He staged his own version of “Hamlet” in...

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Artists beginning with G (part one)

guardian.co.uk
27-Oct-2008
        

Thomas Gainsborough - Mr and Mrs Andrews (c1750), Mary Countess Howe (c1764), Mrs Robinson, 'Perdita' (1781)The wet sky and dew-chilled fields of the English landscape, and the forbidding faces of the people who own it, have...

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