Shortly before departing for Brussels, I finished Susan Mann’s brilliant The Talented Women of the Zhang Family, and began Gail Hershatter’s …
December 15, 2011 – 3:14 pm
Reading: Susan Mann – Precious Records: Women in China’s Long Eighteenth Century
December 9, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Reading: Norman Page – Auden and Isherwood – The Berlin Years
norman page – auden and isherwood – the berlin years
October 5, 2006 – 11:15 pm
europe central
In another country, long enough ago to be only someone else’s life, I remember a summer entranced in my small …