Terry Pratchett is sharpest when dissecting and delighting in human irrationality.
Tag: Fiction
Review: Runaway by Alice Munro
Alice Munro is often said to be the modern master of short stories. I can see why.
The best books I’ve read 2019
In 2019 I gravitated to stories of radical, political change (can you blame me?), and there seemed to be a surplus available.
Review: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other is a book intensely concerned with the politics of identity and creativity, and how they have shifted over the 20th century.
Review: Damascus by Christos Tsolkias
Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.
Review: The Old Lie by Claire G. Coleman
The old Lie, according to WWI poet Wilfred Owen, is that there is glory to be found in dying for one’s country. Claire G. Coleman’s new novel of the same title is a systematic demolishing of that lie.
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