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Tag: Classics

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

Review: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

A compelling depiction of yearning.

Buddhism, Classics, Fiction, Hermann Hesse, Nobel Laureate, Novel

Review: Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade (translated by Katrina Dodson)

A shape-shifting romp through Brazil.

Brazil, Classics, Fiction, Novel

Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.

Classics, Fiction, Novel, Speculative, UK

Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)

A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.

Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Novel, Russia, Satire

Sex and death with Tennessee Williams

In his two Pulitzer-winning plays Tennessee Williams puts the light on the shadowy corners of desire.

America, Classics, gay, LGBTIQ, Play, Pulitzer, USA

Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai

A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.

Classics, Fiction, India, Novel

Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster

A classic novel of travel and Romance.

Classics, England, Italy, Novel

Review: The Story Of A New Name by Elena Ferrante (translated by Ann Goldstein)

This second instalment of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet deepens and complicates the themes of the first.

Classics, Fiction, Italy, Novel

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