Essay published in Paper Brigade Daily (online): "The pro­tag­o­nist of Saul Bellow’s Hen­der­son the Rain King (1959) bawls out a man­ic refrain that serves as his cre­do: ​“I want, I want!” Hen­der­son, a rest­less mil­lion­aire, leaves his fam­i­ly behind to trav­el to an imag­i­nary African coun­try — a mash-up of East­ern, West­ern, and South­ern Africa..."