Unorientalized
/Anthony Burgess' first novels were a series of dark comedies set in colonial Malaya. Did he fall prey to Edward Said's Orientalist crtitique, or did he anticipate it?
Read MoreAloof in Ceasar’s Empire
/In Soviet Russia, Joseph Brodsky was persecuted by the authorities, but memorized by ordinary people. In the capitalist West, he was feted by the authorities, but ignored by ordinary people. Perhaps it's just as well he thought reality "nonsense or a nuisance."
Read MoreOn the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie
/Visionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.
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