This novel about a recently widowed art historian’s retreat to a seaside resort he visited as a child would be worth reading for the beauty of its language and descriptions of the changeable northern seascape alone. Booker Prize winner, 2005.
What do James Baldwin, Aaron Copeland, Delmore Schwartz, Leonard Bernstein, Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath, Milton Avery, Ned Rorem, Carson McCullers…
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“Tales from Here and There: On Ugandan Literary Culture,” which appeared in the Millions, was one of my all-time…
