June 2023 - Andrew Blackman

I've read gulag memoirs before, but Shadows on the Tundra affected me even more deeply than the others—perhaps because of the age of the…

Marcie on Natives of My Person by George Lamming: “The Emigrants and In the Castle of My Skin, which I super pleased about, having read the last bit of…” Jul 29, 18:15
Marcie on Books I read in June 2026: “That’s an interesting question; my guess is that she’s not very well known in either place now. Ten or fiteen…” Jul 29, 17:56
Andrew Blackman on The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid: Book Review: “That would be an interesting premise! Whiteness relies so much on having an “other” to define itself against, so as…” Jul 28, 14:51
Andrew Blackman on The Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón: “Hi Silvia, Thanks very much! I like your way of describing it: “the cyclical and universal quality of history and…” Jul 28, 14:13
Andrew Blackman on Emma Zunz: Borges Marathon, Part 32: “I know! I was half-expecting Emma to realise at the end that she had already murdered Loewenthal and would continue…” Jul 28, 14:02

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