Art in the time of physical distance: Ruth Lawrence
What book(s) and author(s) are you reading right now and why? I bought a stack of local books recently, including Bridget Canning’s Other People’s Children. But I have spent so…
Art in the Time of Physical Distance: Lisa Moore
What book(s) and author(s) are you reading right now and why? I’m reading Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. I’ve read Tess of the D’Urbervilles three times and Far from…
Decidedly disinterested in Oscar buzz (“I feel like life is the prize,” Alice Walker once said), the author told me that she hopes the film prompts viewers to embrace “The Gospel According to Shug.”
BY Evelyn C White
In his early review of the epistolary novel that would later win the 1983 Pulitzer Prize in fiction, a New York book critic declared The Color Purple a work of…