Now retired and reacquainted with the enigmatic woman with whom he first professed love, Tony Webster recalls the 1960s. He was a student, a young lad who formed friendship with boys who are, like himself, curious and sex-hungry, marked by ideals borrowed from literature though often too lazy hence easily outran by the mundane, and […]
History in the Realm of the Supernatural
The time is the early 1800s, some five decades before the American Civil War and the south was still gripped by slavery. The Weylin plantation in the confederate state of Maryland is a microcosm of the African-American experience-men and women of color were deprived of liberties and treated by whites as properties that can be […]
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
From Pakistan, Changez, the protagonist and narrator of Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, moved to New York to study Finance at prestigious Princeton University. Changez’s affluent family was not spared from the hard times that swept Pakistan and his American education was due primarily to granted aid and loans. The combination of determination, focus, and […]