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Five facts about Kenzaburo Oe, the Nobel-prize winning Japanese writer who died this month

Oe said interviewing Chairman Mao was “so boring”

Evening Standard · Mar 14, 2023

Orientalism: Edward Said's groundbreaking book explained

Whether you’re conscious of it or not, you likely have a vivid mental image of what the Middle East looks and sounds like. You might envision a sparse landscape, the air warped by heat and yellowed with flurries of sand. You might hear the plucking of an oud, or a…

The Conversation · Feb 12, 2023

The best fiction of 2022: death and life in Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger

In his book On Late Style, published posthumously in 2006, the Palestinian American critic Edward Said identifies a striking characteristic of some writers as they near the end of their lives.

The Conversation · Nov 24, 2022