Corstorphine Hill Mystery Letter.
Here is the text of a handwritten letter which I today found (and left) taped to the bench at the …
Category Archives: Literary Review
Book Review: The Magician.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is a lot of bad blood to W. Somerset Maugham’s The Magician (1908). If this …
Book Review: When the Edelweiss Flowers Flourish.
[The following contains spoilers.] Tychy has been given a gift: a new English translation of Begenas Sartov’s 1978 novel When …
Readings of Ringstones: Calmahain.
[Tychy has previously written about “A Christmas Story,” “Capra” and “The Khan.” Ed.] Sarban’s Ringstones and Other Curious Tales (1951) …
Book Review: If You Could See Me Now.
[The following contains spoilers.] There is no doubt that Miles Teagarden has been distilled from the psychic juices of his …
Book Review: Unstated, Writers on Scottish Independence.
The University of Stirling’s Scott Hames has compiled a book of 27 essays about Scottish independence. The essays were written …
Book Review: Susan Hill’s Dolly.
[The following contains spoilers.] If Susan Hill remains nostalgic for the traditional English ghost story, she usually sets the coordinates …
Readings of Ringstones: The Khan.
Let us join Sarban at the Café Novin for a story. John William Wall wrote “The Khan” in the spring …
Book Review: Gone Girl.
[The following contains spoilers.] How should we go about reviewing Gillian Flynn’s latest “literary thriller” Gone Girl? Greta is one …
Book Review: Bring Up The Bodies.
The historical novel has remained a doubtful enterprise since Sir Walter Scott’s day. The reader of historical romances will be …
Book Review: The Croning.
Don Miller, the protagonist of Laird Barron’s debut novel The Croning, may be dismayed by the “dense and convoluted pattern” …
A Critical Assessment of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Perhaps literary connoisseurs such as we should remain wary of Mario Puzo‘s The Godfather. It is admittedly an expertly plotted …
Book Review: Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca.
[The following contains spoilers.] Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) is often presumed to be a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane …
Book Review: Jack London’s The Iron Heel.
In Jack London‘s “dystopian” novel, The Iron Heel (1908), revolutionary communism is put to the test and it fails resoundingly. …
A Political Reading of Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.
Vito Corleone appears to be the founding father of an alternative model of America, in which the power of money, …
