This fall, Eleanor Catton released a big beast of a novel, The Luminaries, and picked up the highest honor in literature, the Man Booker Prize (more important than the Pulitzer or the Nobel, in my humble opinion). At the time of the prize announcement, I was spending a lot of time in hospital waiting rooms … Continue reading If critics don’t understand it, why did Catton’s book win a major prize?
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A tightly-controlled world: A.R. Williams on ‘The Camellia Resistance’ (pt. 1)
The novel The Camellia Resistance by A.R. Williams starts off in a comforting place, a warm bed, as the narrator watches her lover dress. But the world outside is far from a comfort — a future landscape, painted in apocalyptic tones and colors. It's become a familiar world in the past decade or so, thanks to … Continue reading A tightly-controlled world: A.R. Williams on ‘The Camellia Resistance’ (pt. 1)
Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
As the calendar year nears the end, media book departments have one goal in common: to produce lists of books to give as gifts and for one's own reading pleasure. Piles of books, endless lists, captions, the mad rush to meet deadlines ... ah, I remember it well (too well!). Not to be outdone by … Continue reading Season’s readings: coming soon to Call of the Siren
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