Monthly Archives: December 2013

A Japanese Novelist

Why are we not all reading Natsume Soseki? Last year I was introduced to his best-known novel, Kokoro, by a professor of Japanese literature at Berkeley. It was terrific and I was grateful, though not so grateful as to immediately … Continue reading

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Perfect Beckett

It’s been over two weeks since I saw the British production of All That Fall at 59E59, and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Rarely have I seen a Beckett play performed so movingly or so delicately. What Trevor … Continue reading

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