Bluebeard’s Chamber by Michael Maar
i crit lit + this lit’s lit crit; MANNSLAUGHTER???
Tag: literary criticism
Proustian Uncertainties by Saul Friedländer
another excellent book about marcel marcel marcel
Three Books About Books By Bookish Lads
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
distracting the self with heady genre fiction
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
great early[ish] essays from one of america’s best
The Silent Woman by Janet Malcolm
stunning essay on the ethics and impossibilities of biography
Lost Time by Józef Czapski
a touch of proust
A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes
Love is not the preserve of the randy, love is not just something that happens with pants off or about to be off…
Consider the Lobster And Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
David bloody Foster bloody Wallace…
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
ABC of Reading by Ezra Pound
I’ve never gotten on well with Ezra Pound’s poems. Though a staple within the pretentious anthologies I used to readContinue Reading
The Bible: The Biography by Karen Armstrong
OK, yes, this is the second “history of Christianity” book in a row I’ve read, but it will be theContinue Reading
A supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again by David Foster Wallace
As I’ve mentioned on here many, many, many, many, many times, Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace* is one of theContinue Reading
Miss Herbert by Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirwell is known as a writer of short, punchy, narrator-led novels. Of the two I’ve read, one, Kapow!, IContinue Reading
Memoir: A History by Ben Yagoda
This will probably be my last blog for a while, as I have a couple of essays to write over theContinue Reading
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau
This is edited from a brief presentation I gave in a class. So it’s more literary than usual and doesn’tContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 