Shirley Jackson and The Bird’s Nest
Satirical, comic, and disturbing, The Bird’s Nest is a remarkable artistic achievement. It is about a young woman with multiple personalities—four of them—each struggling for ascendance.
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Fielding and Unrequited Dreams
The novel The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is a book that gleefully uses canards to make you think it is about one thing when it is really about something else.
The Dull and Heroic Captain MacWhirr
I don’t think anyone has created a better picture of a storm than Joseph Conrad has in Typhoon.
Review: The Jewel of Seven Stars
This is a confounding book in that it is both very good and deeply flawed.
Review of Joseph Conrad’s The Rescue
There will likely be spoilers in the review below, so take this as fair warning.
Cloud by Eric McCormack
I’m having the hardest time reviewing Cloud and I know why. It’s a novel by Eric McCormack and I want to categorize it.