“A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.” Volume 1: […]
Japanese literature
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“When the wind-up bird comes, the earth creaks, the wind blows, and time turns over.” Part 1: The Thieving Magpie The novel opens with Toru Okada, an unemployed […]
English literature
The Magus
“I was born in 1927, the only child of middle-class parents, both English, and themselves born in the grotesquely elongated shadow, which they never rose sufficiently above history […]