“It was the first time I had understood how a thing can seem to be one thing but also another, how a single surface can be divided, like […]
English literature
NW
“The fat sun stalls by the phone masts. Anti-climb paint turns sulphurous on school gates and lampposts. In Willesden people go barefoot, the streets turn European, there is […]
English literature
White Teeth
“What is past is prologue.” — William Shakespeare (Epigraph in White Teeth) Part One: Archie 1974, 1945 The novel opens with Archie Jones, a middle-aged Englishman, attempting suicide […]