“When I’m not doing something for money, I read the new books that drift in from the homeland. The first one this year was A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus, about his conquest of Berlin and various pilgrimages to Spain, Japan and Ukraine. The Berlin chapter is potently dense, the best thing written on that city’s colonization by American artists. The Spain bit is a buddy movie starring Tom Bissell in Danny Glover-like ‘I’m too old for this shit’ mode.”
People often ask me, do you like it better here in London or in America. The only correct answer is ‘Stop asking me that stupid question.’
Both the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books sent bloggers to the Republican National Convention. Getchya popcorn ready, everybody.
