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Tag: Nobel Laureate

Review: The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Grapes Of Wrath remains a bracingly strange novel about ecological crisis eight decades after it was published.

Classics, Fiction, Nobel Laureate, Novel

Review: The Plague by Albert Camus

The Plague is understandably back on best-seller lists: the parallels with our current situation are striking.

Classics, COVID-19, Nobel Laureate

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The hype is real about this one, and well deserved I reckon!
A friend lent me Ted Hughes’ poetry Crow to read. I was expecting it to be mad and it delivered.
I’m equally drawn to and unsettled by the Pacific Ocean - so much deep water, so little land. The fact that islands as far apart as Hawai’i, New Zealand and Easter Island were settled a long time ago by Polynesian people seems a near-impossible feat of navigation and endurance.
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