TGAN

TGAN

by Ursula K. Le Guin

A question from New Bookends: “Where is the great American novel by a woman?” got an interesting answer from the Pakistani novelist Mohsid Hamed.

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I like a lot of what Mr Hamed says. But there’s something coy and coercive about the question itself that made me want to charge into the bullring, head down and horns forward. I’d answer it with a question: Where is the great American novel by anybody?

And I’d answer that: Who cares?

I thin...