The desire to paralyze public discourse by threats, nastiness, and all-round verbal thuggery is the preferred approach of radicals of all shades of opinion on social media, be it Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. Continue Reading »
Joseph Conrad prefaced one of his novels by announcing that the task of a writer is, “by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see !” Here is Salman Rushdie on The Wizard of Oz : “Imagination puts us in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The protagonist of No Longer At Ease by the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe is a young man named Obi Okonkwo who has recently returned to Nigeria after taking a degree in English literature at Oxford University. Obi’s interview for a civil service position turns into a discussion about . . . . Continue Reading »
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