Magnificent Octopus

Everything that happens inside you during the time you remain seated, silent and motionless, is meditation. [...] Boredom is meditation. The...

Duras, in Écrire , deplores that too may books are lacking in freedom. She admonishes writers for acting like cops, whereas writing is a bre...

I have a slight obsession with reviews of an unreliable biography about an obscure (at least to most Westerners) Russian countercultural dis...

The Guardian calls Emmanuel Carrère " the most important French writer you've never heard of ," and I quite agree. (Except for...

My Life as a Russian Novel , a memoir by Emmanuel Carrère, recounts the author's attempt to film a documentary in the Russian village of...

I picked up Granta's sex issue a while ago as it seemed to feature even more than the usual lot of great and interesting-to-me writers....