Reading September Reading: A Month to Forget My thoughts on a month when, for once, I didn't enjoy reading. Was it the books, or was it me?
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 23: Three Versions of Judas Did Judas really betray Jesus for thirty pieces of silver? In a piece of fiction masquerading as a scholarly article, Jorge Luis…
Reading Dusk by Robbie Arnott My review of a beautiful literary novel featuring twins hunting a puma in the Australian highlands.
Reading Books I Read in August 2025 My reading this month took me from Japan to Guadeloupe, via Scotland and Cote d'Ivoire.
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 22: The Secret Miracle My thoughts on "The Secret Miracle", a short story in which Jorge Luis Borges plays with time and causality.
Reading Milkman by Anna Burns: Review My thoughts on a Booker Prize winning novel about a teenage girl living in 1970s Belfast and struggling to survive in a…
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 21: Death and the Compass In this short story by Jorge Luis Borges, a detective tale becomes a labyrinth in which the usual crime fiction tropes are…
Reading The Story of the Night by Colm Toibin A fascinating window into a difficult life. Richard Garay is a young gay man trying to find his way in Argentina after…