American literature

A Brit on 'Brexit'

In "The Colossus of Maroussi," Henry Miller's book about Greece, he described Lawrence Durrell as "English despite himself, [and] in a quandary." Like Durrell, I have lived most of my life outside England and I too am in a quandary: I am pro-European in many respects, yet, having been born and educated in London I retain a strong sense of what it means to be English. Not British - English.

Jeffrey Eugenides meets his Athens audience

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides (l) talks to Greek writer Kallia Papadaki during an event at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center late Thursday. Referring to his most famous work during a press conference at Athens City Hall earlier, the Greek-American had said, "I would not have written 'Middlesex' today." [Intime News]

Paul Auster to Kathimerini: Time is running out, but I'm happy

Paul Auster wrote his first poem on a sunny spring day in 1956, when he was 9 years old. Happy to see the back of winter, he came up with a few verses while walking through a small park in his native South Orange, New Jersey. It was the worst poem ever written, the American writer says today, but it wasn't the words on the paper that mattered.

Way ahead lies in national line

The crisis has triggered all sorts of divisions and reactions in the Greek people. We had fair warning that the resumption of name talks with Skopje would not be easy and could serve as a vent for a society that feels humiliated and hurt - and this precisely what is happening right now.

An affair with a love letter, 'Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold'

With more than 50 years' worth of essays, novels, screenplays and criticism, Joan Didion has been the premier chronicler of the ebb and flow of America's cultural and political tides with observations on upheavals, downturns, life changes and states of mind in epoch-making books, including "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," "Play It as It Lays" and "The White Album." She wrote about her reckoning w

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