Wuthering
Expectations

I first heard of the British novelist Dorothy Richardson, author of the thirteen volume Pilgrimage series, in Ford Madox Ford’s eccentric, ...

The book in front of me is Rashōmon and 17 Other Stories by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke, the cute 2006 Penguin with the manga cover and Murakami H...

I fear shipwreck, I fear unspeakable things, the city’s destruction, the foul death of two kings. (54) That is the chorus of women in Se...

That little tag (l. 814, p. 145) about disaster could be from many Greek tragedies, but it is specifically from The Persians by Aeschylus (...

I had planned to chatter here more in advance of the Greek play event, but circumstances have intervened.  That is sufficiently vague and pa...

The ancient Greek plays are everywhere.  I think of them as foundations of Western literature, but still, I was not expecting to find in Ish...

Let’s read the ancient Greek plays next year.  All of them.  There are not so many, and they are generally short. I’ll read them all, one ...