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Jay Rubin • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel (Vintage International)
Manjula Martin Tells Us
“For the last twenty years, until recently, Jhumpa Lahiri’s stories were the template of ethnic fiction that supports the fantasy of Asian American immigrants as compliant strivers. The fault lies not in Lahiri herself, who I think is an absorbing storyteller, but in the publishing industry that used to position her books as the “single story” on i
... See moreFairfield Porter - Art in Its Own Terms: Selected Criticism, 1935–1975
Founded before Christ and noted for its pretty women, Aries was until 1997 the home of Madame Jeanne Calment. Her story is a testament to the bracing air of Provence and a warning to all property speculators. She was born in 1875, and had met Van Gogh when she was a girl. At the age of 90, she decided to sell her apartment en viager to a local lawy
... See morePeter Mayle • Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
“It had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts and to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. It is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young women of extraordinary profundity. She had a theory that one should be
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