Atonement, by Ian McEwan: fiction writing, an impossible expiation.
In the midst of a heat wave, during the summer 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony secretly witnesses a scene involving her older sister...
On Beauty, Zadie Smith: the conflicting ethics of beauty
It takes strong will, and frankly, stubbornness, to gulp down Zadie Smith like a mere soda, instead of sipping it like the fine wine it...
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee: a family's story enmeshed in a history of war & racism
The word "Pachinko", in Korean, designates a sort of pinball machine or slot machine and it is hardly incidental if Min Jin Lee chose...
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott: the ambiguous feminism of a classic from my childhood
Little Women, published in 1868, is one of these books which made their way through the decades and continue to fascinate and rejoice us...
The Buddha in the Attic, by Julie Otsuka: shattering "the single story"
[Version française ci-dessous] The Buddha in the Attic is a novel I picked up from the shelf because its title intrigued me and when I...
The Waves: my first Virginia Woolf
So, yes, The Waves was my first Virginia Woolf ever. I tried to read A Room of One's Own last year but I wasn't in the best physical and...
Anatomy of a Soldier, by Harry Parker: writing for re-humanising
[Version française ci-dessous] Reviewing Anatomy of a Soldier is something I have been postponing for months. Harry Parker's first novel...
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake: accidents, immigration and identity
My balcony, my cherries and I just finished reading for the second time Jhumpa Lahiri's first novel, The Namesake. Although this second...
