In the case of some novelists, such as Flaubert, Proust, James, Woolf and Kafka, letters are an essential part of their literary output. With others, such as Austen, Dickens and Joyce, they are an invaluable supplement to the published works. With most, however, letters are primarily of documentary rather than literary value. This is true […]
Ever since Patricia Highsmith published her first novel, Strangers on a Train, in 1950, her name has been synonymous with refined and subtle malevolence. Alfred Hitchcock’s unnerving 1951 adaptation of her thriller, featuring two men who undertake to ‘exchange murders’, immediately put Highsmith country on the map. In its shifting landscape, an apparent surface normality […]
T S Eliot’s sojourn in purgatory shows little sign of coming to an end. He has been at the sharp edge of feminist critique for a while, most recently in a series of essays examining The Waste Land from the perspective of the #MeToo movement. Moreover, the opening last year of the archive in Princeton […]
It started with ardour and ended in bitterness, this affair which Simone de Beauvoir described as ‘the only truly passionate love in my life’. Documented in more than three hundred letters, her affair with the American writer Nelson Algren introduced her to the physical pleasure she had never found with Jean-Paul Sartre – and threatened […]
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Knowledge of Sufism increased markedly with the publication in 1964 of The Sufis, by Idries Shah. Nowadays his writings, much like his father’s, are dismissed for their Orientalism and inaccuracy.
@fitzmorrissey investigates who the Shahs really were.
Fitzroy Morrissey - Sufism Goes West
Fitzroy Morrissey: Sufism Goes West - Empire’s Son, Empire’s Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah by Nile Green
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Rats have plagued cities for centuries. But in Baltimore, researchers alighted on one surprising solution to the problem of rat infestation: more rats.
@WillWiles looks at what lessons can be learned from rat ecosystems – for both rats and humans.
Will Wiles - Puss Gets the Boot
Will Wiles: Puss Gets the Boot - Rat City: Overcrowding and Urban Derangement in the Rodent Universes of John B ...
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Twisters features destructive tempests and blockbuster action sequences.
@JonathanRomney asks what the real danger is in Lee Isaac Chung's disaster movie.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/eyes-of-the-storm