Jhumpa Lahiri on being an outsider everywhere, telling the other side of the Roman story in her new book Roman Stories and the importance of defending free speech
After World War II, Ireland's Samuel Beckett began writing some works in French and then translating them into English. Swapping his mother tongue for his adopted language allowed him to "write without style." Out went the puns and other linguistic trickery; in came spare, stripped-back writing that