reading

Ralph Fiennes' Four Quartets

Fiennes' production in which the poem is the script, performed in a theatre with subtle changes of light, and accompanied by film interludes of the locations associated with the poem's four sections.

M31

UFO nutjobs find themselves in an extremely well-written novel.

Hitch-22

Christopher Hitchens reflects on his upbringing, the influences that shaped him, and the philosophical foundations of his worldview.

Quicksand

Quicksand is a silkily nuanced novel of erotic gamesmanship and obsession.

The Kreutzer Sonata

A novella that is the confession of Pozdnyshev, a man who recounts the tragic unraveling of his life and marriage. Very Russian fare.

The War Against Cliché

Essays on the intricacies of literature, focusing on the importance of originality,

The Wager

A tale of an unusual 18th century mutiny.

Josephine the Singer

Narrated by fellow mouse, who reflects on Josephine's (a mouse) significance within their society.

The Guide

A young man falls for a dancer and in promoting her falls into debt, and

Malgudi Days

Short tales by R.K. Narayan taking place in the fictional town of Malgudi.

The Map and the Territory

The contemporary art world comes face to face with one Michel Houellebecq.

The Festival of Insignificance

The trivial moments in life often hold greater meaning than grand events? Find out here.

Hunter of Stories

Why not write the big story of the past by telling the little ones?

Open Veins of Latin America

A brief description of your post

Trust

A tale that revolves around a wealthy financier, Benjamin Rask, and his enigmatic wife, Helen.

The Dog of the South

Ray Midge, a bean counter in Arkansas, is our leading man and narrator. One day, his wife leaves him for Guy Dupree, but what's worse is that she takes his car.

Clay

Multi-levels of meaning and potential interpretation exist in this, one of Joyce's shortest stories.

Hail Mary

Hard sci-fi from the author of The Martian.

My Brilliant Friend

August book club selection

The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Essay collection by the author of Killers of the Flower Moon.

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

A new and compelling discovery for me. The work is difficult to summarize or put into a genre, oddly.

Ms Ice Sandwich

A brief but oddly engaging novel narrated by a grammar school student.

Pastoralia

My favorite collection of Saunders' short stories until Tenth of December

Stella Maris

Plenty of philosophical themes in this patient - psychologist dialogue

The Passenger

Really well done multiple personality disorder character. Also a side mystery

Passing

Two light-skinned Black women from the same neighborhood follow very different trajectories in life and one day reconnect.

Thursday Murder Club

Retirees spend Thursdays solving old mysteries for enjoyment.

The Captive Mind

Essays out of central Europe during the First Cold War by one of Poland's leading intellectuals.

We

The book that influenced Orwell, Huxley and Rand.

Effi Briest

Set in 19th-century Germany, the story follows the life of Effi Briest