Norman Rush was raised in Oakland, California, and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. He has been an antiquarian book dealer, a college instructor, and, with his wife Elsa, he lived and worked in Africa from 1978 to 1983. They now reside in Rockland County, New York. His stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Best American Short Stories. Whites, a collection of stories, was published in 1986, and his first novel, Mating, the recipient of the National Book Award, was published in 1991. Mortals is his second novel. A new novel, Subtle Bodies, will be published in 2013.
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The Evil Flies in Africa
June 7, 2012
The Lower River
by Paul Theroux
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Naipaul’s Mysterious Africa
November 11, 2010
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
by V.S. Naipaul
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Fever Dreams of Your FBI
October 22, 2009
Blood’s a Rover
by James Ellroy
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Vietnam: Portraits from a Tragedy
October 25, 2007
Tree of Smoke
by Denis Johnson
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The Devil in Africa
November 16, 2006
Acts of Faith
by Philip Caputo
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Heart of Darkness
August 11, 2005
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The Last Word on Evil
October 7, 2004
Snakepit
by Moses Isegawa
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Apocalypse When?
January 16, 2003
The Heart of Redness
by Zakes Mda
Ways of Dying
by Zakes Mda
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The Case of Ken Saro-Wiwa
April 20, 1995

