V.S. Pritchett - A story of Don Juan Don Juan, the legendary lover, stays at a lonely widowers house and... Don Juan, also known as Don Giovanni, is a legendary fictional Spanish libertine who devotes his life to seducing women. The original version of the story of Don Juan appears in the 1630 play El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra by Tirso de Molina. The play includes most of the elements found and later adapted in subsequent works, including the setting, the characters, moralistic themes, and the dramatic ending in which Don Juan dines with and is then dragged down to hell by the stone statue of the father he had previously slain.

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Essays ranging from satirical to personal explore messiness of the world Can an attitude of ambivalence help us navigate the complexities of human experience? This is the central question addressed by James Yékú’s Ambivalent Encounters and Other Essays, a collection that e...

Can an attitude of ambivalence help us navigate the complexities of human experience?

Find out more in my article on Ambivalent Encounters by James Yékú for Prairie books NOW’s Fall/Winter 2024–2025 issue.

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