The best books and films of 2022, some description thereof, as well as a few of the worst.
Reading "Jane Eyre" for the second time revealed a quite different— quite Christian and not postcolonial—one from what inhabited my…
Don DeLillo's "The Silence," is a strange novel featuring an electromagnetic pulse and empty narration
Ian McEwan's 2010 novel "Solar" is a misanthropic retelling of ten years in the life of erstwhile Nobel Prize recipient…
In Anna Seghers' novel "Transit," no one really knows who the other is. The reader is never certain of who…
Why reading slowly, especially War and Peace, should be practiced with solicitude, so as to fully appreciate the journey reading…
A novel of religious devotion genuinely spiritual without falling into the mirthless repetition of ecclesiastical doctrine
Idle reflections on The Leopard, by Giuseppe de Lampedusa, which narrates several events in the life and afterlife of a…
A reading journal entry on Lázló Krasnahorkai's "book" The Last Wolf, which is really two small books.
Why do some works of art age better than others?