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Oct 11, 2020
1 min

Bartleby, the Scrivener

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” (1853) is a rather odd short story about an unnamed lawyer who tries ...

Sep 23, 2020
1 min

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain (2020) is the most poignant book I’ve read in quite some time. A remarkable accomplishment considering it’s...

Sep 12, 2020
1 min

Scandal

This 1986 novel by Shusaku Endo is a departure from a lot of his previous work, mainly historical fiction. Protagonist Suguro, a modern-d...

Aug 30, 2020
1 min

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick, released in July of this year, is a compelling, heart-breaking report of the Tibetan struggle over the ...

Aug 30, 2020
2 min

Notorious

The beauty of this film (besides Bergman) is its ending. The good guy does not stumble across a gun and shoot down the baddie. The bad gu...

Aug 21, 2020
2 min

How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Bidisha, in her review of How Much of These Hills Is Gold for The Guardian, wrote: "The novel is thick with detail, metaphor and oblique ...

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