1: Picking up the Shards of the Past 2: Saturn Moves into Pisces 3: Brett Plays Bad Boy 4: What Memory Can Do for You 1: Picking up the Shards of the Past A book starts with a feeling, an emotion. It’s not a rational process. So says the Pisces Brett Easton Ellis bornContinue reading “Attractions and Repulsions with Brett Easton Ellis”
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Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities
1: The Search for the Real Proust 2: Proust in Love and Hate 3: Proust’s Daimon or Genius 4: Proust’s Sense of Humour 5: Death and a Cork-lined Room 6: The Cinematic Proust 1: The Search for the Real Proust They say people are changed by reading Marcel Proust. Life is foreverContinue reading “Proust and his Time Capsule of Curiosities”
Chimananda Ngozi Adichie Counters the Mono-Narrative
Author Chimananda Ngozi Adichie has just made a statement that I want to applaud. She’s a voice speaking out with the fiery tone that James Baldwin used to have when he called out the mob mentality among all shades and skin colours. He said – and it is still true – that hate leaves theContinue reading “Chimananda Ngozi Adichie Counters the Mono-Narrative”
Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima
1: Confessions of a Mishima 2: Sun and Steel Body Cultivation 3: Capricorn Broods on Time 1: Confessions of a Mishima There is a pleasurable intensity in books that confess to sins or crimes that alienated the author yet seduce the readers. “Confessions of a Mask’ (1958) is like this – an autobiographical novelContinue reading “Flying the Kite of Destiny: the life and death of Yukio Mishima”
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