Category: Books

• The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore: A tour de force of lyrical prose and the uncanny

  A. K. Blakemore, Books, Fiction, The Glutton by A. K. Blakemore, Women Writers

• Ágota Kristof’s The Notebook Trilogy of Novels: Remarkable on loss, identity and the trauma of war

  Agota Kristof, Authors, Books, Fiction, Literary Classics, The Notebook Trilogy by Ágota Kristof

• Oh, dear: On Lydia Davis’ Collected Stories

  Lydia Davis, Women Writers

• On Cormac McCarthy’s Child of God: Purple prose in hindrance of its master

  Authors, Books, Child of God by Cormac McCarthy, Cormac McCarthy, Fiction, Violence Against Women

• Memoir: Ghost in the Bone by Penny Bunton – A remarkable tour de force

  Actresses & Actors, Authors, Books, Memoirs, Non-Fiction, Penny Bunton, Women Writers

• Curiouser and Curiouser: My Favorite Alices – Post by Christina Henry, bestselling novelist

  Authors, Fiction

• For all aspiring writers out there

  Abuse of Women

• Biography: Simone de Beauvoir by Ursula Tidd

  Biography, Books, Feminism, Non-Fiction, Women Writers, Women’s Rights

• Audrey Niffenegger, H.G. Wells’ Giant Brain and Speculative Fiction

  Books

• The Magic Wagon: A Bildungsroman Cult Classic by Joe R. Lansdale

  Authors, Books, Fiction, Joe R. Lansdale, Literary Classics

• A List of Top 100 Novels: stats and trivia

  Books, Fiction

• The battle of the sexes in fiction – Lawrence Naumoff’s Taller Women

  Authors, Books, Feminism, Fiction

• Tony Rudt: A brilliant mind in a great collection of essays

  Biography, Journalism, Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century by Tony Judt, Tony Judt, Women’s Rights

• Death on Credit: Celine’s existential nightmare novel on the human condition

  Authors, Books, Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Literary Classics, Louis-Ferdinand Céline

• To sever your head from your heart: Dangerous liaisons in Iris Murdoch’s A Severed Head

  A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch, Authors, Books, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch, Women Writers

• A Visit from the Sh*it Squad: Jennifer Egan’s novel about watching toxic paint dry on cr*ap music

  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, Authors, Books, Fiction, Jennifer Egan, Literary Classics

• A beautiful literary classic: The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

  Authors, Books, john kennedy toole, Literary Classics, The Neon Bible by John Kennedy Toole

• ‘The Leopard’ Lampedusa’s light-hearted, deeply learned, always entertaining letters

  Authors, Books, Memoirs, Non-Fiction

• How to challenge sexist men’s thinking

  Abuse of Women, Anti-Feminism, Feminism, Sexism

• Who’s Your Daddy? An appreciation of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

  Authors, Books, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, Fiction, Ivan Turgenev, Literary Classics

• CHARTS: Heres What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About…

  Feminism, Journalism

• Charles Dickens: The making of a literary giant – Hibbert’s masterful biography

  Authors, Biography, Books, Charles Dickens, Christopher Hibbert, Non-Fiction

• Hotel du Lac by Anita Brookner: A moving meditation on love and personal choices

  Anita Brookner, Feminism, Fiction, Women Writers

• Moments of Truth: Twelve 20th-Century Women Writers. A great book by Lorna Sage

  Authors, Biography, Books, Feminism, Journalism, Lorna Sage, Non-Fiction, Women Writers

• The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch: An Appreciation

  Abuse of Women, Authors, Fiction, Iris Murdoch, Literary Classics, Misogyny, The Philosopher’s Pupil by Iris Murdoch, Women Writers