April 5, 2002
The Hidden Lives of Oil
As a teacher of international literature, I'm constantly looking for books that will enable my students to vanish with engagement into other worlds. Reading works by non-Americans usually poses some challenges, but I hate the idea of students' recoiling from foreign authors because they associate foreignness with the unfathomable or the threateningly remote. I want to help them discover those points of passion that plunge them, like Alice, down a bolt-hole into a kind of astonishment that is
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