This brilliant novel, depicting a day in the life of a prisoner in a Soviet prison camp in the 1950s, tells a huge story not just of Stalinist oppression but the human will for survival, and even optimism.
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…
