Irvine Welsh’s new short story collection revisits the sort of characters we’ve met in his fiction before. But this batch is not nearly as engaging.
Erica Lipper
Erica Lipper writes about fiction for the Prospect. She is a teacher in Washington, D.C.
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Broken Family
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (Viking Adult, 368 pages) This week, the Western gaze turned once again to Turkey when a journalist of Armenian descent and champion of the Armenian cause was shot and killed outside of his office in Istanbul. At his funeral days later, tens of thousands of mourners […]
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We Are All Absurdis Now
These last few weeks of international crisis have once again presented to wary citizens a baffling modern tangle of political and cultural concerns — blurred borders and ill-defined belligerents, conflicts at once nationalist, ethnic, religious, mercenary, and coldly strategic. (Will Druze Lebanese support Shiite Hezbollah now that Israel has attacked? Is this all some frame-up […]
