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 trying to approach the grandeur of…
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 of this sort, I’ve been…
Hit the road: A Walk Across Serbia – An Interview with Kevin Shannon
In 2013, travel blogger and adventurer Kevin Shannon walked the length of Serbia twice. Kevin embarked on a solo journey across a country that was mostly new to him; not knowing if he’d be able to find a place to sleep on any given night, or what sort of people he’d encounter in the next town over.
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 really like how solemn everything gets…
Humour and linguistics
Breaking of linguistic conventions and rules may seem strange in serious contexts such as court and religious situations, but the truth is that the informal conversation lends itself to verbal…
You haven’t been Burnsided yet? Review of The Dumb House
Reading The Dumb House, a novel written by the Scottish author John Burnside, is a Schrödinger's cat situation: two mutually exclusive interpretations sit together without cancelling each other out. On…
The big world in The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things is a novel written by the Indian author Arundhati Roy. It remains her only novel and is a stunning yet harrowing tale set in the…
