book review
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MacBeth and Wyrd Sisters
MacBeth is the tragedy whose name cannot be said – Wyrd Sisters is it lesser known but more funny little cousin.
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Summer Will Show, Women in Revolution
In ’Summer Will Show’, Sylvia Townsend Warner writes two heroines, Sophia and Minna, who, in the heat of the 1848 Parisian revolution, break and remake…
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Blindness by José Saramago, an Allegory of Unseeing
In ‘Blindness’, José Saramago strips humanity of sight to expose its moral failures, but also its raw and tender unnamed insides.
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Thoughts on ‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of Novel’
‘Mrs Dalloway: Biography of Novel’ sets out to explore the origins of Virginia Woolf’s novel and the deep footprints it’s been leaving over the past…
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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s Most-Read Novel
Virginia Woolf wrote with ‘Mrs Dalloway’ one of the most read and most enduring novels of the 20th century. But what makes her novel so…
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Sara Stridsberg and her Beckomberga
Sara Stridsberg’s ‘The Gravity of Love’ is the story of a father and daughter, as well as the story of Beckomberga, the former mental institution…
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Other Worlds, Same Hauntings
Nadezhda Teffi’s anthology of short stories ‘Other Worlds’ has opened my eyes to a hidden gem of Russian literature.
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Reading List 2024
Everyone does a review of the year – why not use your reading list as one? This is 2024 from the point of view of…
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Who Owns the Narrative of McGlue?
Ottessa Moshfegh’s first published work, “McGlue”, is the story of one man’s enlightenment or a study on how the psyche works. Depends on how you…
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Animal Farm (or, How Stories Make the World)
George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” shows that you need only one thing to start a dictatorship: aggressive storytelling.
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