Monday, October 22, 2007

A review of Black Snow by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Black Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an auto...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

A review of The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk

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I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, p...
Monday, October 1, 2007

Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

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Anne Tyler’s Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently wraps you into its characters’ world and ...
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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Sukarno, A Political Biography by J. D. Legge: nationalism revisited.

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I don’t read a lot of history, contemporary or otherwise, and when I do, it is usually in the area of political economy. In recent years, fo...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

A memory of Kyoto

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It’s often that chance encounters, the unplanned events, linger, long after the excursions and the sights of a particular trip have faded. I...

A review of Mukiwa by Peter Godwin

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Peter Godwin certainly has a story to tell. It’s a story of an idyllic, if unusual childhood, a disrupted but eventually immensely successfu...
Saturday, September 15, 2007

A Million Would Be Nice by Ken Scott

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I don’t read many books that claim membership of a genre. In my humble opinion, a work of fiction should aspire to create its own world, des...