Select Strange and Sacred Sites
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Armah’s seventh novel plunges into history as the narrator Lindela translates secret hieroglyphic texts left by migrant Egyptian scribes millennia ago. As her work progresses, old questions animate her own urgent search for knowledge of self and society. Through her story, Armah asks how Africa’s multimillenial history can be best understood, and why did the society that invented literacy, sink into the misery of illiteracy, ignorance and religion.
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He was a friend of James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Irving Berlin, and F. Scott Fitzgerald–and the enemy of Ezra Pound, H.L. Mencken, and Ernest Hemingway. He was so influential a critic that Edmund Wilson declared that he had played a leading role in the “liquidation of genteel culture in America.” Yet today many students of American culture would not recognize his name. He was Gilbert Seldes, and in this brilliant biographical study, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen recreates a singularly American life of letters. Equally important, Kammen uses Seldes’s life as a lens through which to bring into sharp focus the dramatic shifts in American culture that occurred in the half-century after World War I. Born in 1893, Seldes saw in his lifetime an astonishing series of innovations in popular and mass culture: silent films and talkies, the phonograph and the radio, the coming of television, and the proliferation of journalism aimed at mainstream America in such venues as Vanity Fair,...
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