Book Reviews
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Girl with Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien (Or: Ode to a Bookseller)
The experience of knowing love and of being destined, one day, to remember it, is the common lot of most people. Continue reading
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Star – Yukio Mishima
If you get too used to living life this way, the steady flow of real time – where there is no turning back – begins to feel boring and stale. Continue reading
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Earthlings – Sayaka Murata
My husband beamed. “I’m delighted. Your freedom has turned out to be in the same place as ours! What kind of miracle is that?” he said. Continue reading
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The Dud Avocado – Elaine Dundy
What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over. Continue reading
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Of Dogs and Walls – Yuko Tsushima
When it’s nothing, really. When it really doesn’t mean a thing. Continue reading
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Eurotrash – Christian Kracht
For everything that does not rise into consciousness will return as fate. Continue reading
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August Blue – Deborah Levy
That was the old composition and I had walked out of that world. I had literally walked off the stage. Continue reading
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The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Jane was restored to her normal state of unhappiness and hope. Continue reading
