Nothing too sentimental about Flaubert’s Sentimental EducationI’ve always struggled with the idea of Gustave Flaubert. Sentimental Education feels like it should be a balanced combination of that…1d ago1d ago
There are literary bitches, then there’s Manon Lescaut. A novel by Abbé Prevost.What’s with the French and their characters who absolutely roll around the dirt with moral degradation? They seem to be the masters of…3d ago3d ago
Nothing comes close. Why you should read Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin.I bought my copy of Eugene Onegin when I was still in university for a bit over $5. That was a good twenty years ago. It’s been lying there…6d ago6d ago
Seeing art through the eyes of a rich old wanker. On Berger’s Ways of Seeing.“All art is quite useless” — Oscar Wilde.Mar 24Mar 24
Like a raccoon going through a pile of trash. Underworld by Don DeLillo.What is a great American classic? Widely known, a range of novels as light-hearted such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to something…Mar 21Mar 21
The challenges of the black body in America. On Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.America, whether you’re an American and want to admit it or not, is broken and has been broken for a very, very long time. The festering…Mar 17Mar 17
Fleming whipping out his Thunderball, but not for the better.Lemme say that I’ve always loved the James Bond book, no matter how absurd they are, for example, gambling taxpayers money in the casino…Mar 151Mar 151
Shit sure it’s a game you won’t see me play. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin.In total, I probably watched about a minute of the TV series of A Game of Thrones way back when it was the hottest thing since a black man…Mar 6Mar 6
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie.Contrary to what initially thought, the Indians in the title is not really the Indian that plays cricket and eats curry, but the Indians…Mar 3Mar 3
Monkeying around with apocalypse. Ape and Essence by Aldous Huxley.Aldous Huxley is a peculiar writer. His Brave New World set the standard for dystopias which still echo true to the reality of what we have…Feb 281Feb 281
