Sometimes I picture memory as a sort of mental container in which one’s experiences, conveniently labelled school, family vacations, UFO etc., can be compressed with […]
In the Mists of Memory: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Category: Literature
Cohen’s bunch of lonesome heroes
Cohen’s writing career spans decades and includes numerous volumes of poetry as well as two novels. One of the two, The Favourite Game is not your […]
Five Famous Fiends
Author’s note: This list is, of course, completely biased. Where there is light, there must be darkness, and where there is good, evil must also […]
Zadie Smith’s NW : A swan of a novel
Zadie Smith has stated on various occasions that she considers herself to belong to the arena of obsessively local writers, inhabited by authors such as […]
To Virginia Woolf, who created stars out of waves
The waves showed that uneasiness, like something alive, restive, expecting the whip, of waves before a storm. – Jacob’s Room Where does one start when […]
An ode to my hero Julian Barnes, a literary giant
There are times when we feel like everything around us has shattered and there is simply nothing to hold on to. In my own escapades […]
If on a winter’s night a traveller you knock on Neil Gaiman’s door
Winter is coming, or so they say. Well, I guess that they are right. It is really cold outside these days. Yet somehow I […]