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Stories as generosity

An expansive view of stories from Turkestan, as if they embody the sweeping spaces of the steppe, and the freedom...

This poetic summary resonates deeply - the search for green eternity as opposed to 'mere astonishments'. I've always been baffled...

Borges uses two incisive metaphors to create the effect of some Irish writing on English letters.

'(Irish writers) … made...

An incisive summary of the effect of Irish writers on English literature; I liked the English-rose-pruning metaphor and the 'frank...

I liked this sharp reminder that literature is always work-in-progress, particularly in translation. While I have used the term 'definitive'...

Here’s my homework, and yours if you choose it, for the summer holidays. To ‘create a word, only one, for...

A pithy way to categorize an aesthetic response - the straightforward reflection of a mirror or the more complex refraction...