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Something Tangible, Alive, Threatening
‘The Villa and The Vortex’, Elinor Mordaunt, Handheld Press, 2021
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Mavis Gallant – How to Write with Depth
I have lived in writing, like a spoonful of water in a river. This is how the Canadian author Mavis Gallant describes her writing life,…
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How ‘Jane Eyre’ Was Published – The Story in Charlotte Brontë’s Letters
That Charlotte Brontë published ‘Jane Eyre’ in 1847 under the name Currer Bell is well-known but what more is there to the story? Let’s see…
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Life Ceremony – Not for the Faint of Heart
Sayaka Murata, ‘Life Ceremony’, Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori, Granta, July 2022.
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S-Town – Narrative Nonfiction Podcast with a Looot of Twists
Whatever anyone (including this review) tells you what the podcast S-Town is about, it’s not. Unless they give you spoilers, which, for this podcast especially,…
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The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf’s First Novel
It’s hard to read Virginia Woolf’s first novel objectively, knowing her later work. I keep looking for the Woolf I know. But she was not…
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Anna Karenina – Life, Lively, Lived
“Life dominates Tolstoy. There is always at the centre of all the brilliant and flashing petals this scorpion ‘Why live?’” (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Russian Point…
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Do Electric Sheep Elicit Empathy?
In Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ Rick Deckard is convinced he can tell “andys” apart from humans by using an established…
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Creative by AI
In Ian McEwan’s ‘Machines Like Me’ we see what happens when the artificial human is more human than the human.
leseriana in English
Book reviews and recommendations, literary analyses, forgotten literary treasures, hints and suggestions how to live a meaningful reader’s life. This is an overview of all the blog posts I wrote in English.
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