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Terrific glosses on Walter Benjamin and Henry James.

Espectacular, una vez más, Sergio Pitol.

Joseph Conrad is, it must be said straight away, a brilliant novelist, one of the highest peaks of English literature, and at the same time a writer uncomfortable on that privileged Olympus.

In the interviews I've read [Gao Xingjian] speaks little of that time. As always happens in an authoritarian state, where decisions are made only within the leadership, one fine day the governing group, led by the widow of Mao, collapsed with a roar.