Tag: literature
member name: Philip S.
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March 25, 2008 12:04 PM EDT --
Some writers try to shock. At least it often seems that they embark upon a novel with that in mind. They create books set in times of conflict, amid war or pestilence, where the context is vivid, horrific . . .
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February 06, 2008 08:03 AM EST --
At the start of Shakespeare Bill Bryson apologises for the fact that there is not much to tell. Every aspect of the bard's physical presence on the planet seems to be shrouded in doubt and mystery. . . .
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August 18, 2008 06:33 AM EDT --
My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey is a strange, multi-layered journey through a man's p ast, his artistic ins p iration and his p roducts, both illusory and real. Christo p her Chubb is . . .
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September 18, 2007 05:11 AM EDT --
It is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre-inflated. Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read. And I was captivated immediately. . . .
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October 13, 2007 09:05 AM EDT --
I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, possibly because its name fits so easily into my thoughts . . .
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November 26, 2007 04:34 AM EST --
Flaubert’s Parrot by Julian Barnes is a book I have had queuing up to read for some time. I don’t know why I have never got round to reading it. Perhaps it’s because of the overtly “literary” . . .
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