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The Occasional Review: <em>The Baron in the Trees</em>, by Italo ... Oct 8, 2006 ... The book is, in some ways, an elegy for feudal Italian society, since the Enlightenment happens while the Baron is up in trees (incredibly, ... 2.
The Occasional Review: <em>The End of the Road</em>, by John Barth The End of the Road, by John Barth. I read The Sot-Weed Factor in college and enjoyed it a great deal, but I don’t trust my taste from those days, ... 3.
The Occasional Review: <em>The Baron in the Trees</em>, by Italo ... Oct 8, 2006 ... The Baron in the Trees, by Italo Calvino. I read this book largely on train rides and one long flight, and it was a wonderful companion. ... 4.
The Occasional Review: My Mortal Enemy, by Willa Cather Feb 3, 2007 ... I will need to verify this further, but after reading My Mortal Enemy, I suspect that after this period she was lost to art; the shift that ... 5.
The Occasional Review: To Each His Own, by Leonardo Sciascia May 5, 2007 ... To Each His Own is the rare book that feels like a true artistic response to such massive institutional crimes. Unsurprisingly, Sciascia ... 6.
The Occasional Review: On Wings of Song, by Thomas Disch I was an occasional reader of Thomas Disch's blog, Endzone. Most of the posts were just ordinary musings, but there were also some brilliant bits of verse ... 7.
The Occasional Review: To Each His Own, by Leonardo Sciascia May 5, 2007 ... To Each His Own is the rare book that feels like a true artistic response to such massive institutional crimes. Unsurprisingly, Sciascia ... 8.
The Occasional Review: Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox Desperate Characters, by Paula Fox. I'm drawn to coterie obsessions: books brought back into print after years of neglect, waiting to finally be understood ... 9.
The Occasional Review: Le Grand Meaulnes, by Alain-Fournier Le Grand Meaulnes is a story of childhood and adolescence, lost worlds, schoolyard fights, love at first sight, and that sort of thing. ... 10.
The Occasional Review: The Little Virtues, by Natalia Ginzburg Impressed, I picked up The Little Virtues, a collection of Ginzburg’s essays translated from the Italian, including He and I. It's a slim collection, ... |
