“The wicked lie, that the past is always tense”: The Genius of Zadie Smith
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse …the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. – Zadie Smith, White Teeth Zadie Smith’s grand and sweeping…
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London By Literature
By Jamie Worcester The dust of ages swirls and falls, staining walls, darkening glass, coating surfaces, clogging lungs. Bricks, leaves, paper, food, bones and skin…
Book Review: The Casual Vacancy
J.K. Rowling hit literary (and literal) gold when she wrote Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The series made her world famous, and rightly so.…
Literary Fiction 101: A DIY Syllabus for Fall 2012
by Amanda Festa For students of all ages, fall brings the start of a new semester and, along with it, the crisp pages of class…