Nice Work

"Decades later, Lodge is now writing about an aging academic who must come to terms with deafness (Deaf Sentence, already published in Britain and soon out in the United States). But the interesting question about his best-known novel is whether the places are still the same, and academics would still like to exchange them. What has happened to David Lodge's educational landscape after 33 years?"

In considering the 1975 novel Changing Places, Elaine Showalter in The Chronicle Review answers the above question.