My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the… — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
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The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
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Men are impatient, and for precipitating things; but the Author of Nature appears deliberate throughout His operations, accomplishing His natural ends by… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
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When we seem to have won or lost in terms of certainties, we must, as literature teachers in the classroom, remember such… — Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Copy Share Image
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