Recently, in a bar, I was reading “In Gratitude,” by the British writer Jenny Diski, when a loud guy with tall hair asked me what it was. I stumbled a little before saying, “It’s a cancer memoir.” I ...
The Vanishing Princess finds Diski in reflective mode. The first story is about the eponymous princess, but its subtitle—“Or, The Origin of Cubism”—suggests something more than a modern fairytale.
To my mind, the quintessential Jenny Diski moment comes in her essay “Rape-rape,” published November 2009 in the London Review of Books. Considering the director Roman Polanski’s statutory rape of a ...
In this inventive retelling of the Abraham and Sarah story, Diski (Skating to Antarctica) offers up a vain, "testy" God, who has created humanity in the hope of gaining insight into Himself. Instead, ...
The late Jenny Diski’s memoir reflects on mortality and her complicated relationship with Doris Lessing with equal candour I had just finished this remarkable book and this review, when I heard of ...
WHY DIDN’T YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU WERE TOLD? By Jenny Diski. Bloomsbury. 432 pages. $28. Jenny Diski’s death of lung cancer in 2016 left a Diski-sized gap in the pages of the “London Review of Books,” ...
American writer Heidi Julavits' generous, keen, penetrating introduction to Jenny Diski’s posthumous story collection, “The Vanishing Princess,” calls Diski ...
Jenny Diski in 1988. “I write fiction and nonfiction, but it’s almost always personal,” Diski said about her writing process. “I’ve never been apologetic about that nor had a sense that my writing is ...
The word “Diski” is a common slang term used in South Africa to refer to the colourful game of soccer. An initiative of South African Tourism, “Diski” dancing imitates soccer playing moves and grooves ...
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