Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memoir. Show all posts
Thursday, May 13, 2021

From The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky‘s From The House of the Dead is not a novel. Though its principal character, its narrator, the upper-class Goryanchikov, ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

A Postillion Struck by Lightning by Dirk Bogarde

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A Postillion Struck by Lightning is the first part of Dirk Bogarde’s seven volume autobiography. First published as long ago as 1977, it has...
Monday, October 5, 2020

Hidden Agendas by John Pilger

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  We consume journalistic opinions on contemporary events almost without realizing it, or perhaps we used to. We expect commentators to expr...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

A Mad World, My Masters by John Simpson

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In A Mad World, My Masters John Simpson presents a set of observations and anecdotes drawn from a near lifetime of reporting for television ...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

30 Days In Sydney by Peter Carey

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Peter Carey’s 30 Days In Sydney claims to present a wildly distorted account of a writer’s return to a city he knows well. After ten years i...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wole Soyinka’s Aké

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I expected to get a lot more from Wole Soyinka’s Aké than I did. It’s not every day that the childhood memoirs of a Nobel Laureate come to h...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Old School by Tobias Wolff

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Superficially, Old School by Tobias Wolff suggests the gentility of an adolescent memoir. The paroxysms of growing up will be heartfelt, but...
Friday, January 9, 2009

The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares

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The Yellow Rain by Julio Llamazares is thankfully a short novel that describes life, or rather the end of it, in a Pyrenean village called A...
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ways Of Escape by Graham Greene

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Ways Of Escape is one of the most rewarding and, surprisingly, surprising reads one might encounter. On the face of it, the book is Graham G...