Monthly Archives: September 2023

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve gotten older, or more sensitive, or the world has gotten scarier, or what, but ooooof, this was a tougher read than I remembered, mostly because the depictions of a society falling apart under the threat of nuclear war felt distressingly resonant, albeit highly caricaturish and stylized. Actually, inContinueContinue reading “Watchmen, Alan Moore”

I’m still seeking out absorbing page-turners rather than slower meditative reads, I think because summer is drawing to an end and meanwhile we still have boxes to unpack from the move, and I just need something easy and pleasurable. I thought this would serve my needs well, because I really liked Matrix, and at firstContinueContinue reading “Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff”

Buffalo Street Books asked if I’d lead one of the conversations in their Read Widely bookclub, and suggested this as a potential pick. I was glad to have the opportunity to re-read it, this time in English (in a really excellent translation by Antonia Lloyd-Jones!), because it’s a novel where the last few chapters reallyContinueContinue reading “Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Olga Tokarczuk, tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones”