Book review: “Nothing Like the Sun” by Anthony Burgess
I came to realize, as I read Anthony Burgess’s 1964 novel Nothing Like the Sun, that I have an image of William Shakespeare that is somewhat larger than life. Make [...]
I came to realize, as I read Anthony Burgess’s 1964 novel Nothing Like the Sun, that I have an image of William Shakespeare that is somewhat larger than life. Make [...]
Perhaps the most important sentence in Elena Ferrante’s 2011 novel My Brilliant Friend comes when fifteen-year-old Elena Greco is spending her summer on the island of Ischia across from her [...]
The first 70 or 80 pages of the novel Djibouti moved so slowly that I began to wonder if, after more than half a century of great writing, Elmore Leonard [...]
Altar By Patrick T. Reardon I sit far from the altar for fear, give myself distance, breathing room, unworthy and aloof. Angels tumble into the abyss. Leave [...]
In 1944, at the age of 13, Brooke Randel’s grandmother Golda Indig was with her older sister in the German death camp of Auschwitz. They had been separated from the [...]
Seventeen questions about hate by Patrick T. Reardon If I believe that Donald Trump is bad for the United States and the rest of the world because [...]
One-Cent wonders By Patrick T. Reardon The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. [...]
John, the friend who recommended Peter Sarris’s 2023 Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint, had one caveat about the book’s subtitle: “He was no saint.” It’s funny how a comment like that [...]
Generally, I don’t read introductions before starting a novel. I want to experience the book fresh on its own terms and on my own terms. I don’t want some other [...]
The American nuclear-powered submarine USS Dolphin and her crew have an awful lot of bad luck on a trip under the ice cap to save the survivors of a devastating [...]