Kenneth Champeon
Content by Kenneth Champeon
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Monique Truong's debut novel, The Book of Salt, is narrated by a Vietnamese man named Binh who serves as the personal cook for those sapphic luminaries Gertrude Stein and Alic
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<B>A cult's apocalyptic endgame</B> The most recent works by Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Kenzaburo Oe have tended to be readable, thinly veiled autobiographies featuring his men
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Simply put, The Hamilton Case by Sri Lankan author Michelle de Kretser is one of the most extraordinary novels I have ever read.
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Called the "forgotten war" by at least one of its chroniclers, the Korean War had consequences that are rather more difficult to forget: a hostile and impoverished North Korea run by a pudgy dictator
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V.S. Naipaul has gained fame as a literary prophet of the lost. His characters abandon their homelands; they are ragouts of caste, race and class; they embody post-colonial angst.
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After September 11th, as it became apparent that the United States would bomb Afghanistan, an open letter written by an Afghan appeared on the Internet.
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National leaders occasionally decide that some of their country's citizens must die so that the nation may live.
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Within Bombay's Towers of Silence, the Parsis expose their dead to hungry vultures a practice as environmentally friendly as it is macabre.
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April Fool's Day, the debut novel by acclaimed Croatian-American writer Josip Novakovich, recounts the life of Ivan Dolinar, a Croat born into Tito's Yugoslavia on April Fool's Day, 1948.
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Japan may possess the world's greatest disparity between public decorum and private perversity.
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One of the better known "failed states" is Somalia, which has been at war with itself since the collapse of its ruinous military regime in 1991.
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G.K. Chesterton once said that the purpose of journalism is to inform the public that Lord Jones is dead, when nobody knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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A novel about terse men with guns will inevitably summon comparisons to Hemingway. One set in the South will likewise invoke Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy.
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From 1975 to 1979, the murderous Khmer Rouge regime of dictator Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of 1.7 million Cambodians.
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Lest there remain any doubt that Afghanistan under the Taliban was a place barely fit for human habitation, Yasmina Khadra's spellbinding new novel, The Swallows of Kabul, removes it once and
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A married and middle-aged male teacher whose life is going nowhere woos one of his young, female students, thereby fouling up his life all the more. Sound familiar? It should.
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The history of literature confirms Plutarch, who wrote, You will find few of the wisest and most intelligent men buried in their own countries. A great many of the best writers have lived abroad.
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Muslim women are much spoken of, seldom heard from, unless in the almost obligatory television scenes of bereaved Palestinian mothers or veiled Afghani daughters.
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If you could guarantee your child a rich life in exchange for forfeiting your right to see her, would you do it?
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In theory, Americans are defined not by their ethnicity but by their adherence to the principles enshrined in the founding documents of the United States.
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Writing about another culture is a great risk. What if you presume? Misrepresent?
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Much Madness is divinest Sense/To a discerning Eye, wrote Emily Dickinson.
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