Téa Obreht is the most thrilling literary discovery in years

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

He said to me once that most of the time people use the word love as just another way to show off they're hungry. The way he said it went something like: Glorify their appetites.

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told.

She likes the people with the endurance to tolerate the drudge, the ones who know that pain is a requirement, not a curse.

There are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.