As we immerse ourselves in a bracing loss of innocence, we are riveted to the rhythm of this doom spiral.
Category: Books
COMPETITION: Win H. Jon Benjamin’s “attempted” memoir FAILURE IS AN OPTION!
Great news all… FAILURE IS AN OPTION: An Attempted Memoir by one of the most talented voice actors of his generation, H. Jon Benjamin, is up for grabs on the blog!
Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery
Often when reading narratives that decide to play with time, jumping back and forth without warning, I wonder if the book would hold up as well if it were rearranged in chronological order.
The dark, beautiful magic of reading Russian master Gaito Gazdanov’s stories for the first time
There’s a tenderness within Gazdanov that seems to recall Carson McCullers or Anne Tyler
Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting
And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.
The jury is in for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Execution of Justice
The case is open and shut. But when the incarcerated murderer hires a disreputable lawyer to investigate the possibility that it was someone else, the case inverts into a claustrophobic entanglement of red tape, sin and checkered pasts.
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