Love in a Time of Brutality
The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton. 1920. It’s difficult to write about a book that’s probably rated exactly where it ought to be. So »
Reading That Garbage
Salvage: Readings From the Wreck. Dionne Brand. 2024. One way I think we all went crazy in the last decade or so (there are so many »
Trust No Englishman
An Instance of the Fingerpost. Iain Pears. 1997. I’ve read quite a few novels this year with unreliable narrators, some of which I’ve loved »
Stories in Stories in Stories in Stories
The Aleph and Other Stories. Jorge Luis Borges. 1949. Borges is, genuinely, a great writer. One of the greatest to ever live probably. A genius who »
Annie Get Your Gun
It’s Hereronormativity: The Musical! You know, kind of. I doubt anybody explicitly set out to make it that; few artists intend to make propaganda unless »