The Atavist has been killing it lately. Last month, I was riveted by Joshuah Bearman’s outrageous (and completely true) story of one Brit’s attempt to bring a “Baghdad Country Club” to the city’s Green Zone. This month, “Mother, Stranger,” Cris Beam’s account of her abusive mother–a distant relative of William Faulkner–had me on the verge of tears.
Two From The Atavist
War and Peace and the Gita
Recommended reading: The New York Review of Books reviews at Richard Davis‘s The Bhagavad Gita: A Biography and the way centuries of politics can alter our interpretations of religious texts.
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O’Reilly Book Banned
Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln book is banned from Ford’s Theatre because of “mistakes.”
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“First Reads with James Wood”
The Faster Times recaps James Wood‘s recent lecture on David Foster Wallace‘s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.
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Mo Yan’s “Bull”
Recommended Reading: “Bull” by Mo Yan, the latest winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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