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Suddenly Last Summer
Dr “Sugar” Cukrowicz is summoned to Mrs Venable’s house with the jungle garden and elevator. The doctor is a lobotomist and seeking funds for his psychiatric research. Mrs Venable, a rich and eccentric woman, promises to help him out financially if he will do something about her niece, who has been raving about her cousin… Read more >>
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Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks
I have at this point read all of Kafka’s fiction, or at least all the novels, the Lost Writings, and everything that appears in the Complete Stories collection. It’s now that I turn to his nonfiction, which holds as much interest to me, though of a different flavor. The Blue Octavo Notebooks contain a set… Read more >>
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A Restless Heart – Augustine’s Confessions
Confessions is one of those monumental works I feel unqualified to review. I read it with as much care as I give any book, especially a nonfiction work, but reading anything written before the 1800s feels like stepping into another galaxy. I don’t feel like I quite belong there or understand everything I see. However,… Read more >>
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The Brilliance of “Baskervilles”
My first encounter with Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles was in the mid-90s. The children’s public TV show Wishbone aired an episode called “The Slobbery Hound,” of which I remember nothing except the scene with the painting. However, the plucky little Jack Russell terrier helped me fall in love with classic literature, and especially… Read more >>
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