How the West was written
b'Geoff Dyer on why Larry McMurtry\\u2019s novel Lonesome Dove was one of the most memorable reading experiences of his life (a taster from his essay: \\u201cThere was no book and no reader. There was just this world, this huge landscape and its magnificently peopled emptiness\\u201d); In April 1939, the black contralto Marian Anderson stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and performed to a crowd of 75,000 people. Carol J. Oja sheds light on the twists and turns behind a moment when the history of Civil Rights intersected with that of classical music. Read more at the-tls.co.uk
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