A Bend in the River Notes

Analysis of Ellen Gilchrist’s The Rhoda Manning Stories

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on June 10, 2021

The four Rhoda Manning stories in Ellen Gilchrist’s first collection, In the Land of Dreamy Dreams (1981), provide a perfect example of Ellen Gilchrist’s art: her laconic and pellucid prose, her indelible and oftentimes heavily ironized characters, her mastery of… Read More ›

Analysis of V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River

By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on July 13, 2020 • ( 0 )

A Bend in the River is V. S. Naipaul’s (17 August 1932 – 11 August 2018) masterwork of displacement and dispossession, a summary statement from a distinguished writing career documenting what John Updike has called “one of the contemporary world’s… Read More ›