Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.
Tag: Nobel Laureate
Review: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.
Review: The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (translated by Howard Goldblatt)
A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.
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.
Review: The Plague by Albert Camus
The Plague is understandably back on best-seller lists: the parallels with our current situation are striking.
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