![]() ![]() ![]() And that was the end, but that was the sort of project of the book was to push these moments to their crisis. And at that point, he turned to me and he said, it's not just him. I said to him, you shouldn't have voted for him. You don't have, you know, this constant chatter around the news. There was one occasion where a white man, I was waiting on line to board the plane, and the two of us standing there, and he says to me, you know, I love airplanes because you don't have any news. So that's sort of - I didn't want to feel like I was pressing because I didn't know these people, you know, and it didn't always work out. But then when he said his son didn't get in because his son's friend, who was a person of color, got in, then I thought, OK, he is in my wheelhouse and we can start this conversation. And even then I wasn't willing to say, let's talk about white male privilege. And in one of the situations recounted in the book, eventually he asked me what I did and I said I taught at Yale and he said, you know, his son didn't get in on early decision. He asks what did the gate agents say, and then that leads to something else and leads to something else. One reads and reads and the language attaches to some dictionary’s idea of meaning in vague and inexact ways. I write because the world seems out of order. ![]() Well, I think initially I thought I would just wait for somebody to give me an opening in conversation, you know - so you're sitting next to a guy, you're waiting, the plane is delayed. Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric is the California Book Club’s April 2023 selection. Let's see what it means to be in conversation. 'Just Us' is a book that says, look at this. ![]()
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Apart from theįact that his plays and fiction are hilarious, and make me smile immensely (see 'The Importance of being Ernest'), Wilde always seems to weave a moral beautifully into any of his tales. He is the kind of writer who seems to get everywhere. I've got to say, if you haven't read Oscar Wilde yet, you probably already have without noticing. "Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do," said the Duck.Īlright, just a quick book review. "The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral." ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() An accomplished sorcerer, Elric is physically frail and sustains himself on herbs and drugs, though he gains most of his strength from his fearsome sword Stormbringer.īut there’s a pretty major catch to wielding this awesome blade. The story, which spans books, short stories, graphic novels, and music, follows the journey of Elric, the albino emperor of Melnibone and its last survivor. 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(Personally, I like to try and work out what words mean even in languages I know nothing about.)Īs the two talk about their lives in the last decades of the Soviet Union, we also get hints about the mother’s background. ![]() She left some passages of untranslated Latvian and Russian poetry and songs, which I think added to the sense of place. Aside from my occasional confusion, I liked Gailitis’ translation. I’m not sure if the two women are supposed to sound so similar or if that’s because of the translation. There were times when I was confused about who was talking, until something happened that I could assign to one character or the other. The other is her mother, born in 1944 in a small village in the Latvian countryside. One of these voices is a daughter, born in Riga in 1969. We only know which first-person narrator is who because of their relationships to each other. ![]() ![]() But in Nora Ikstena’s troubling short novel, Soviet Milk(translated by Margita Gailitis), the withholding of one mother’s milk from her child becomes an unsolvable puzzle for that child as well as a metaphor for the stifling false nurturing of the Soviet Union. Mother’s milk has such a powerful reputation for nutrition and nurturing that it’s sometimes used as a byword for something that feeds our souls. ![]() |