I had previously thought that John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces had the saddest publication […]
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, by John le Carré
The Cold War was a murky conflict, so murky that it’s hard to tell what […]
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Gabrielle Bellot eloquently explains why Calvin & Hobbes is great literature. (LitHub) Kelly Gallucci has gone […]
The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats, by Mark Hodder
Time has been out of joint for a long time in Sir Richard Francis Burton’s […]
The Twelve Chairs, by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov
Almost ten years after the Russian Revolution, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobryaninov has put his past as […]
Götz and Meyer, by David Albahari
Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursać, David Albahari’s Götz and Meyer is a long stream of conscious […]
The Buried Book, by D.M. Pulley
No one ever tells Jasper Leary anything. His mother has told him to be a […]
The Gentleman, by Forrest Leo
Lionel Savage married for the worst reason: money. He was out of funds and, in […]
Ross Poldark, by Winston Graham
Coming home from war is hard. Coming home from war to learn that the woman […]