Sam Solecki

T.S Eliot might have been thinking of Anne Carson when he suggested that “only those [writers] who will risk going too far can possibly find out just how far one can go.” Of course, going too far often entails out-running one’s readers and being dismissed as too experimental or elitist. On the evidenceof her last two creative…

Josef Škvorecký is a prolific writer, but there is no doubt that his major body of work is contained in the seven semi-autobiographical novels he wrote during the past 60 years. The Cowards, dealing with the end of the Second World War and written during the early years of the communist takeover of…