Daniel Warriner

“Alas! alas! what is done in youth can never be undone in age!" Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Old Nurse's Story” (1852) is a classic that...

This is the first story I’ve read by English writer Wilkie Collins (1824–1889), and it’s a very good ghostly Victorian tale, with eerie...

Written by Charles Dickens four years before he died of a stroke in 1870, and a year after the train to London he was on derailed, “The...

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

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

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