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…
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero Treachery and heroism blur in this meticulously plotted short story by Jorge Luis Borges, with noticeable echoes from history and literature.
ReadingTravel All the Books on One Shelf How would you approach the task of presenting all of English literature on a single shelf display? Here's how one Serbian bookshop handled it.
Reading Borges Marathon, Part 19: The Shape of the Sword With shifting narrators and a big twist at the end, this short story by Jorge Luis Borges tackles themes of violence, vengeance,…
Reading Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature by Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian Professional mycologist Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian demolishes any idea of rigid boundaries and hierarchies in this glorious celebration of the diversity and queerness…
Thinking No, RSS isn’t dead! Why a technology that many people seem to think is obsolete may actually be perfect for these times.