The Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andrić
One of the most important and engaging novels I’ve ever read, a sprawling fictional exploration not of a specific person,Continue Reading
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The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
shellshock and amnesia and different kindsa love
The Great War by Joe Sacco
Joe Sacco’s wordless, 8 metre long panorama of the first day of the Battle of the Somme is a harrowingContinue Reading
Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf
Both the blurb and the author biography of my 1980s edition of Jacob’s Room by Virginia Woolf state that thisContinue Reading
The Poems of Wilfred Owen
In a few weeks, I am driving my father to Paris for a couple of days, and on the wayContinue Reading
