Fiction is so overrated

I've loved and cheered for protagonist who were objectively put, awful human beings, (Alex, A Clockwork Orange , Humbert Humbert, Lolit...

Happily for you, it's not my own poetry but someone who was really good at it.   From C P Cavafy, as translated by Rae Dalven C...

For my comments on Justine , Balthazar , and Mountolive , the first three books of the Alexandria Quartet, follow the respective links. ...

For my commentary on Justine and Balthazaar , books one and two of The Alexandria Quartet, follow the respective links. "For ...

Go here for comments on Justine , book one of The Alexandria Quartet.   " How disgusting, how unfair love is! Here I had been lov...

Wow; I'm really late to the party. It seems everyone already knows this collection is amazing and there is no chance that I'm tell...

"It is our disease," she said, "to want to contain everything within the frame of reference of a psychology or a philosophy....