King Henry VI Part I by Shakespeare
The play is not the epic drama that made Shakespeare the greatest writer in the English language. That Shakespeare isn’t here.
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Maus
Maus isn’t a Disney cartoon or a children’s bedtime story. It’s about the bureaucratically organised extermination of millions based on their race, yet Spiegelman uses the fable’s anthropomorphism to unravel the idea that made this mass murder possible.
Book review: Devil in a Blue Dress by walter mosley
This book review can also be read on my Substack page, Brave the Castle. I haven’t read Walter Mosley’s latest novel, Everyman a King. I have read Devil in a Blue Dress which is his very first novel. I’m a lover of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, and when I read Mosley’s debut, I was walking down those same gritty streets that … Read More Book review: Devil in a Blue Dress by walter mosley
American Psycho Book Review
Remember Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, the book Harry found in the restricted section of the Hogwarts library, and how the book screamed like a man with knifes being pushed through his skull? That book could have been American Psycho. The novel is a terrifying but brilliant read. Its protagonist Patrick Bateman tells the story through his own eyes and in his own … Read More American Psycho Book Review
You Can’t Just Like Franny and Zooey
This book review should be around a 4-minute read. J.D. Salinger’s literary duet Franny and Zooey, composed of a short story and novella, is for anyone who is like Franny Glass and is “sick of just liking people” (15). The book turns on the lives of siblings Franny and Zooey Glass who are not characters you can just like. In its first part, Franny … Read More You Can’t Just Like Franny and Zooey
The Secret History by Donna Tartt reviewed
The Secret History is a rare accomplishment. The perfect novel. This article should be a 5 minute read. It has a thrilling plot. The novel is a murder mystery that begins with the murder. “We hadn’t intended to hide the body where it couldn’t be found,” Richard Papen narrates. You know who the killers are, but not why they’re killers. Who these people are … Read More The Secret History by Donna Tartt reviewed
Book Review: Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
This story has no inciting incident and no climax, and the goals of its protagonist are lofty and often contradictory. It may, like J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, be accused of being a largely plotless tale of a neurotic individual. This may be true, but it does not make Yukio Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask a worthless story. Like Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, … Read More Book Review: Confessions of a Mask by Yukio Mishima
William Barker-Writer and Philosopher 