Tuesday, January 01, 2008

NYTs book review of J.M. Coetze's latest novel --

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/books/01eder.html?th&emc=th

Would the reviewer have written the same if the writer were a woman?

Special Friday Night post--Robert Graves' I Claudius--just beautiful--poetic--because written by a poet

who needed money. Derrick Jacobi as Claudius, the Roman Emperor. The Voice--narrated in the first person, is unmistakeably Graves'--has ...