Volume 56, Number 12 · July 16, 2009
In the Kangaroo's Pouch
By Tim Parks
Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
by Geoff Dyer
Pantheon, 296 pp., $24.00
On a hot summer evening in 1999 in the Italian town of Reggio Emilia, the English writer Geoff Dyer told a crowd how much he preferred Italy to England: the Italians were vibrant, free, warm, loved life; the English were dull, conformist, surly, glum. One development, however, offered hope: the invention of the rave party and the discovery of Ecstasy meant that many English people were opening up and becoming more Italian; they were learning to love life. The crowd applauded.
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