In The New Yorker: The narrator of “Open City,” Julius, is in his final year of a psychiatry fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian, and the book covers roughly a year, between the fall of 2006 and the late summer of 2007. He is around thirty, and tells us that he came to America as a university… Read More »
1. “There is no room for compromise. Either the entire Mubarak edifice falls, or the uprising is betrayed” – Slavoj Žižek 2. Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology – The New Yorker 3. “Why all the fuss over Scientology, when your resources and time might better be directed at the finances, earthly corruption, and… Read More »
Each month, The New Yorker invites a writer to read something from the archives of the magazine. This month, Ms Adichie reads Jamaica Kincaid’s Figures in the Distance, first published in the May 9, 1983 issue of The New Yorker. It is a great choice. Check out the podcast here. While you are at it,… Read More »