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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

American writer Heidi Julavits' generous, keen, penetrating introduction to Jenny Diski’s posthumous story collection, “The Vanishing Princess,” calls Diski ...

The author Jenny Diski, in a bravura essay for the London Review of Books, has laid out the details of her inoperable cancer diagnosis, writing: "Under no circumstances is anyone to say that I lost a ...

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