Lebanon: No Going Back

Carolyn Marie Souaid remembers a country of promise and hope, but also a land of despair and ruins.

The reverse of the world: Letter to Geneviève Brisac

Fanie Demeule, author of Lightness, addresses a letter to French author Geneviève Brisac, who also wrote a novel (Petite, 1994) based on her teenage years with an eating disorder. 

The Remarkable, the Quirky and the Delightful, or, Why I Love the TLS

After a certain period of time, say forty years, I think we should be allowed to admit that we no longer know somebody we used to know and be permitted to go back to the beginning and start again, I’ve known some people for so long without speaking to them and we’ve all changed so much in the interim that we need to be re-introduced.

"I flung myself into pleasure like a suicide on to a pavement" -- Graham Greene

This is the kind of man that young men of my generation and perhaps a younger generation must have wanted to be, especially young men who wanted to write.

Graham Greene, The Comedians (NY: Viking, 1965) is available from Abebooks.