by scottmanleyhadley March 24, 2016 Number of comments0 Book Review Yesenin: The Selected by Sergei Yesenin Recently, I’ve been trying to cut down the massive piles of unread books in my house. By reading them, notContinue Reading
by scottmanleyhadley February 22, 2016 1 Book Review Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale by Laura Engelstein You are in a wooden hut in the depths of Siberia, thousands of miles from the lands of your ancestors.Continue Reading
by scottmanleyhadley February 12, 2016 Number of comments0 Book Review What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy The intellectual and emotional vigour with which I’ve approached What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy has left me bawling in the street,Continue Reading
by scottmanleyhadley July 18, 2015 3 Book Review Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler Almost two years ago to the day, I read Arthur Koestler’s Arrival and Departure*. That, unfortunately, didn’t really thrill meContinue Reading
by scottmanleyhadley January 9, 2015 Number of comments0 Book Review The Last Summer by Boris Pasternak Boris Pasternak was the author of Doctor Zhivago, which I didn’t realise when I picked up this slim novella aboutContinue Reading
by scottmanleyhadley March 30, 2013 1 Book Review One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn This is a very serious book. It’s a deeply realist exploration of a single day in a Soviet-era prison camp,Continue Reading