Dead ends and good intentions
In many ways John Macmillan, the protagonist of Pico Iyer’s new novel Abandon, is your standard grad student. He spends most of his time slogging in front of a computer. But John isn’t studying something sturdy and wholesome like, say, neurobiology or economics. He’s studying Sufism, and particularly Rumi, the thirteenth-century mystic poet whose translated […]
