Wuthering
Expectations

I’ve been cooking along with Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage novels, along with a few people on Twitter.  This month was the third book, Ho...

I’ve been enjoying the poetry of Richard Eberhart recently.  “Once considered one of the most prominent American poets of the 20th century…”...

Alcestis (438 BCE), this is more like it, this is an introduction to Euripides. HERAKLES:   I mean, we all gotta die.   Right? Well, th...

Well, that was not so bad, Rhesus , I mean. Curiously, it is the only surviving Greek play taken directly from the Iliad , and it feels a bi...

 ISMENE:                                               I know   that wild and futile action makes no sense. (p. 161) Antigone’s sister i...

Here we see, in a representation likely dated fairly close to The Eumenides (458 BCE), Apollo protecting Orestes from a Fury, from the Br...

The pointed roofs of Pointed Roofs (1915), the first volume of Pilgrimage , Dorothy Richardson’s roman fleuve , were in Hanover, abroad,...

  ELECTRA:   Everything dies – the dust is forgotten. How can we hope to do what has to be done?   (Hughes, 109) Robert Fagles calls it ...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus.  What a quotable play.  Here’s a two-line summary: CHORUS:  Where is the right and wrong In this nightmare?  (7...

We have reached our first Sophocles play, Ajax , generally thought to be “early.”  Putting it before Aeschylus’s Oresteia (458 BCE) gives m...

Another edition of a Wuthering Expectations staple: “Get these books back to the library.” *** Satan in Goray , Isaac Bashevis Singer (193...

This week’s play is Prometheus Bound , by Aeschylus, or maybe not – A Common Reader here reviews a book arguing the “not” case – and first ...

 I. Benjamin Labatut’s Bola ñ o-Sebaldian 2020 novel-like object, Un verdor terrible ( A Terrible Verdure , although Adrian Nathan West’s ...

That is almost literally what The Suppliants or The Suppliant Women (463 BCE) is, the prelude to what is likely a more tragic, more intere...