The Lectern
Wednesday, June 20, 2018
'The Conjure Man' Peter Damian Bellis
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Peter Damian Bellis’s novel, set in the deep bigoted South of revival meetings, alligator hunts, Spanish moss and bible bashing lynch mob...
Thursday, April 26, 2018
'Taipei People' Bai Xien Yong
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When I first arrived in Taiwan over 20 years ago and was looking for somewhere to live, one of the places I went to see was a room in the...
Friday, April 13, 2018
'Skulls of Istria' Rick Harsch
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Towards the end of Rick Harsch’s new novel the protagonist – an American historian on the lam in Europe, on the Croatian coast to be prec...
Saturday, April 07, 2018
'Notes of a Crocodile' Qiu Miaojin
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If I learned anything about life during college, it was to turn away from my shattered ego and move on. Notes of a Crocodile describes...
Monday, March 26, 2018
'Existence: A Story' David Hinton
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We are looking at a painting by the great Ming Dynasty landscape artist and Chan Master Shi Tao: a scholar (with attendant) on a promonto...
Friday, February 02, 2018
'Renegade, or Halo2' Timothy Mo
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Globalisation , an American dictionary informs us, is ‘the removal of barriers between national economies to encourage the flow of goods, se...
Monday, December 11, 2017
'The Street of Crocodiles' Bruno Schulz
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It’s not often I find myself agreeing with Jonathan Safran Foer (it’s not often I find anything he says interesting enough to take issue ...
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