From the "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, excerpts and commentary on the experience of its reading
A passage from Henry James' novel "An International Episode" displays the tyranny of the imagination
Shirley Jackson's "Flower Garden" will mystify readers expecting horror, but civil discord is in no short supply
On the experience, specifically pain, of reading as instanced with reference to the modernist masterpiece "Ulysses" by Irish writer James…
One of several forthcoming asides on the book "Ulysses" by James Joyce. Lead us not into temptation.
Don DeLillo's "The Silence," is a strange novel featuring an electromagnetic pulse and empty narration
A summary of Cynthia Ozick's "Trust", being the story of a peculiar, nameless narrator seeking the reasons for her lack…
An excerpted passage from the 1966 novel "Trust" by Cynthia Ozick, dripping with the poetry and squalor of Rimbaud.
Ruminations on Cynthia Ozick's knotty, profound prose counterposed to some armchair commentary on Tom Hanks' eminently forgettable appearance on the…
Ian McEwan's 2010 novel "Solar" is a misanthropic retelling of ten years in the life of erstwhile Nobel Prize recipient…