Category: literature
-
Book Review: Vigil, by George Saunders
You know one thing you rarely heard about in the good old U.S.A. anymore? Monsieur Frog? A young fellow dying of appendicitis. At twenty-eight. Like Grandpa’s brother had. Because a road got washed out. And the horse-drawn cart couldn’t make it through. Imagine you go back in time and drop that young guy into the…
-
Book Review: A Place of Greater Safety, by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel’s epic doorstopper brings the French Revolution to life — in intimate, violent, and inescapably human detail. In the 2020s, elections are won — it is said — on the price of eggs. In the 1780s and 90s, the French revolution ignites by the price of bread. And so it goes. A Place of…
-
Book Review: Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro
A haunting book about the dark side of progress, the brevity of human life, and the way we surrender to our fates. Sometimes I buy books based on colour alone. My copy of Never Let Me Go all but called out to me from a lone stand in a bookstore I had only just discovered…