Not a Good Week for Speech

December 10, 2012 14:03

Anyone reading the Nobel Prize acceptance lecture of this year's literature laureate could be forgiven for thinking that the writer is a bit of a mush-pot, so full is it of tear-jerking, almost schmaltzy anecdotes about his late mother. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mo Yan -- or Don't Speak, the pen name by which the Chinese novelist goes -- may be a mama's boy, but he's no dewy-eyed sentimentalist. That's Tinku Varadarajan's piece on Newsweek. Read

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