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30th April 2020 by George Orwell and Fatherhood: Part One The most important influence on George Orwell was probably his father. This essay, then, explores the crucial theme of fatherhood in a number of contrasting ways. It first examines the responses of both Orwell and his contemporaries to his father. It then looks at the many fascinating representations of fathers in his novels. Orwell’s own strikingly progressive attitudes as a dad are highlighted as are, finally, the responses of his son, Richard Blair, to having the celebrated author of Nineteen Eighty-Four as a father. Richard Wal...

John Quin , April 3rd, 2021 09:26 John Quin admires Joan Didion’s late collection Let Me Tell You What I Mean Here’s Joan Didion on roving reporter mode at a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in Gardenia, the draw-poker capital of Los Angeles County. A penitent says their ideal, the aim of the programme, is “getting serenity”. Didion balks at that: she associates serenity with death. Joan doesn’t do serenity: she’s been proven right in her anxieties for decades. It’s 2021 and entirely appropriate to be nervous now. Didion, perhaps more than any other contemporary American writer, gr...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Book World: Joan Didion's 'Let Me Tell You What I Mean' shows a writer ahead of her time Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post Feb. 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Joan Didion - - - Joan Didion has been consecrated in her own lifetime. In the five decades since "Slouching Towards Bethlehem," her work, particularly her nonfiction, has been widely celebrated. In 2013, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal. She was the subject, in 2017, of a Netflix documentary, "The Center Will Not Hold." "South and West," published the same y...

The Crash Palace is a book by Andrew Wedderburn.(Coach House Books, Malcolm Overend) The Crash Palace is about a woman named Audrey, who used to work in the oil fields and attend parties at a remote lodge in the wilderness known as the Crash Palace. Audrey has long left that life behind her, and now has a daughter. But one night, she is compelled to return to the now-abandoned Crash Palace — where she must also reckon with her past. When you can read it: Jan. 12, 2021 Andrew Wedderburn is a writer from Alberta. He is also the author of The Milk Chicken Bomb, which was a finalist for the A...

When Joan Didion was an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, in the mid-1950s, she tried to get to grips with the 19th-century German philosopher Hegel. She even attempted to read theoretical linguistics with what she would later describe as “a kind of hopeless late-adolescent energy, to buy some temporary visa into the world of ideas”. Only, the world of abstract, scholarly theories didn’t hold her attention for very long. Every time she tried to contemplate Hegel’s dialectics, she was drawn instead to the palpable world around her, to the blossoming p...