“I Only Want a Little Authenticity!”
When I was in college, after a discussion of Chinua Achebe at the tail end of a survey course in English literature, I got into an argument with a classmate who suggested that plenty of African...
View ArticleThe 1991 Novel That Predicted Sarah Palin
As prophetic an instrument as it can be, the novel is rarely predictive , in a straightforward, short-range, weather-forecast sense. The oracular nightmare ( 1984 ), the visionary comedy ( Yellow Dog...
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