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Tag: Classics

Review: Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Sin and salvation in 1930s Harlem.

African-American writers, Black writers, Classics, Fiction, New York, Novel, US

Review: The House Of The Spirits by Isabel Allende (translated by Magda Bogin)

A haunted house of a country.

Chile, Classics, Fiction, Magic realism, Novel, South America, Translation

Review: North And South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

All is flux.

19th Century, Classics, England, Fiction

Review: The Iliad by Homer (translated by Emily Wilson)

Sing, Goddess, sing of the wrath of Achilles.

Ancient Greece, Classics, Poetry

Review: The Wife by Sigrid Undset (translated by Tiina Nunnally)

Biting marital drama.

Classics, Fiction, Historical, Nobel Laureate, Norway, Novel

Best books I’ve read 2023

2023 reviewed.

Anthology, Australian, Classics, Colonialism, Contemporary, End of year review, Female writers, Fiction, History, India, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, LGBTIQ, Melbourne, Memoir, Nonfiction, Novel, Racism, Short stories, Speculative, speculative fiction, War, Year in review

Review: W. H. Auden: Poems Selected By John Fuller

Poetry that belies Auden’s training as a scientist.

Classics, England, gay, Poetry, queer

Review: Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay

The third in the Neapolitan series broadens the scope.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Novel

Review: A Passage To India by E. M. Forster

A clear-sighted and damning depiction of India under the British Raj.

Classics, Colonialism, Fiction, Historical, India, Novel, Racism

Review: The Years by Annie Ernaux

A generational reckoning.

Classics, France, History, Memoir, Nobel Laureate, Nonfiction

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