Monthly Archives: August 2007

The Birthday Party

My review of Panos Karnezis’s novel The Birthday Party appeared last Saturday in the Financial Times.

An unlikely romance

In 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre visited the US at the invitation of the American Office of War Information. He was following in the footsteps not only of that most famous of transatlantic literary voyagers, Alexis de Tocqueville, but also those of Chateaubriand and Céline. Sartre’s visit attracted the attention of Time magazine, which reported that during [...]