Before the book’s publication, no one, it seemed, wanted to talk about abortion publicly. But something changed with when the book finally arrived in 1966. The post After “Abortion”: A 1966 Book and the World That It Made appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
Do you find child narrators–their perceptiveness as well as their misprisions, their loyalties, their prejudices–endlessly absorbing? The post B-Sides: Rebecca West’s “The Fountain Overflows” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books
As in Conrad, even when characters think they understand the dynamics of Leonard Woolf’s jungle, they really don’t. The post B-Sides: Leonard Woolf’s “The Village in the Jungle” appeared first on Public Books.| Public Books