By PANKAJ MISHRA and FRANCINE PROSE JULY 1, 2014
Each week in Bookends, two writers take on questions about the world of books. This week, Pankaj Mishra and Francine Prose discuss whether categories like immigrant fiction are useful or meaningful labels.
By Pankaj Mishra
Many of the writers who have revitalized American literature in recent years neither disown nor reclaim the past.
“I am an American, Chicago born,” Augie March declares in Saul Bellow’s 1953 novel, “and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way.” “The Adventures of Augie March” Continue reading