By Luke Davies
Ballantine Books, 1998.
Like Trainspotting, Candy depicts heroin addicts in a British subculture, but it is set in Australia, not Scotland. “Candy” is the slang name of the unnamed narrator’s two great loves: his girlfriend and heroin. He introduces her to the drug, and they descend from being high on life, love, and drugs, [...]
Archive for August, 2007
Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction
Posted in Australia, Fiction on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Blue Sky
Posted in Asia, Himalayan Region on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Galsan Tschinag
Translated by Katharina Rout
Milkweed Editions, 2006
Galsan Tschinag is the German name taken by Irgit Shynykbai-oglu Dshurukuwaa, a Tuvan born in Mongolia in the early 1940s. Tschinag studied in Germany in the early ’60s and ended up leading the Tuvan people, dispersed under Communism, back to the High Altai mountain region. This autobiographical novel, [...]
Wild Form & Savage Grammar
Posted in Asia, Natural History, Poetry, South Asia on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
By Andrew Schelling
La Alameda Press, 2003.
These essays are reports from an increasingly important crossroads where art and ecology meet. Andrew Schelling belongs, in the words of Patrick Pritchett, “to a small group of poets who are actively engaged with the rhythms and pulses of the natural world.” He is also the preeminent translator into English [...]
