It’s been a year since Paul Bowles died in Morocco. But the picture of him as the expat recluse is not very accurate. And tributes on the anniversary of his death aren’t likely to get at the meat of his life. “The idea that Bowles preferred to live in isolation from the world – because he never moved back to New York – is an enabling fiction: it lets journalists and critics off the hook for not bothering to learn about Morocco or Bowles’s life there.” – Feed