A compelling depiction of yearning.
Tag: Classics
Review: Macunaíma by Mário de Andrade (translated by Katrina Dodson)
A shape-shifting romp through Brazil.
Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
An extraordinarily bleak depiction of incarceration.
Review: The Master And Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (translated by Michael Glenny)
A devilish romp through Soviet literary society.
Sex and death with Tennessee Williams
In his two Pulitzer-winning plays Tennessee Williams puts the light on the shadowy corners of desire.
Review: The Inheritance Of Loss by Kiran Desai
A heaving, seething, raging novel full of life’s absurdities.
Review: A Room With A View by E. M. Forster
A classic novel of travel and Romance.
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.
Review: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust
A monumental, meandering, magnificent tale of truth, love, beauty.
Review: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (translated by David McDuff)
A deep dive into the glorious decline of Russian society.
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