Illustrations, reviews (mostly bookish) and other scribblings. Subscribe to the fortnightly dispatch at one’s peril (or delight).
Book Review: The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Part superhero origin story, part critical race discourse, The City We Became is popcorn entertainment with serious political heft.
The E.M. Forster Project: Where Angels Fear to Tread
The first E.M. Forster novel is a precocious debut.
The Non-Pareil
On the exquisite perfection of Lorraine’s Date Tart and I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith.
Savage Fury: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Room of One’s Own
Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?
