Reading Recommendations
Book Reviews
What You Have Heard Is True
What You Have Heard Is True by Carolyne Forché is one of these books everyone should read. Even if you normally don’t read memoirs. Even if you’re not that interested in repression and resistance. I chose this book because I’d…
La Chambre Claire 2018
The Best Short Prose Published Online in 2018 According to Claire There were stories I loved that I didn’t include. There were probably stories I would have loved, had I read them. So the list below is non-exhaustive and unfinished,…
Diary of a Bad Year by Coetzee
In Diary of a Bad Year, Coetzee narrates the story of an elderly writer who meets a young woman in the communal laundry room and asks her to type out his essays. The book itself is interlaced with these essays…
Black Dogs
I’m reading Black Dogs from Ian McEwan, trying to proceed slow, be attentive; his prose deserves it. Still, I’m hurrying toward the scene in which the dogs will appear – not only the title, also the storyteller has promised me…
La carte et le terroir
Ik lees La carte et le terroir, de nieuwe Houellebecq, want mijn lieve buurvrouw was zaterdag in de boekhandel en zag dat deze roman vervroegd was uitgebracht, schijnbaar vawege de massale staking vandaag, en kocht twee exemplaren. Ik heb pas…
Point Omega
Er zijn weinig auteurs op wiens boeken ik zit te wachten. Meestal lees ik romans die al een poos in mijn kast staan of die ik toevallig in een boekhandel oppak. Maar zodra ik hoorde dat er een nieuwe Delillo…
