For 1,500 years, no writer except Virgil held more esteem in the classical world than Seneca . And today? “We read every major tragedian in the Western tradition, except Seneca,” says poet and author Dana Gioia , a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. “If Seneca’s plays survived the sack of Rome, […]
Peng (right) attends the Indie Bookstore Festival held in Wuhan, Hubei province, in April. [Photo provided to China Daily] On business trips, Peng always took small books with him, and finished reading one each day. On the surface, he was a salesman traveling around to sell products, but actually he was immersed in a literary […]
THE VEGAN, by Andrew Lipstein We should all be feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote, and at this point in climate change, we should probably also all be vegans (at least for part of the week). But in Andrew Lipstein’s ingenious second novel, avoiding meat and dairy is a sign that something has gone seriously wrong. […]
