learning from literature

learning from
literature.

reviews what middlemarch taught me about patience. George Eliot’s masterwork is slow by design — and that slowness is the whole point… →

notes reading kafka at 3am. Some books only make sense when the rest of the world has gone quiet… →

lists 10 novels that changed how i think. Not the most beautiful books, not the easiest — but the ones that rearranged something… →

articles on the art of the unreliable narrator. When a story lies to you, what is the author really saying? A look at fiction’s most slippery device… →

series reading the russians: part one. A six-part journey through the major Russian novelists, starting with where to actually begin… →

reviews the remains of the day: a second reading. Ishiguro’s novel means something completely different at 40 than it did at 22… →

notes marginalia as a form of love. Writing in the margins of a book you cherish feels transgressive — and then, entirely right… →

lists the best opening lines in fiction. A first sentence is a contract. Here are the ones that made me sign immediately… →