What do you get if you cross a young man, a Russian political exile, a couple of Mexican artists and a United States in the grip of paranoia? Well if you’re lucky you might just get Barbara Kingsolver’s novel The Lacuna. I have never read any of her books up until now, and I’d been [...]
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The Secret by Eva Hoffman
What in the end turned out to be an intriguing short novel by writer and academic Eva Hoffman, The Secret had been gathering dust on my bookshelves for a few years since my wife had read it. I know we are all at times guilty of the sin of judging books by their covers (publishers [...]
The Lizard Cage by Karen Connelly
The brutal and authoritarian military dictatorship of Burma, perhaps receives less than its fair share of column inches in the international media, possibly losing out to more recent conflicts. I think it is also fair to say that many national governments have a vested interest in deflecting attention, as over the years they are the [...]