by Alice Lowe
In his 1946 New Yorker review of Do I Wake or Sleep, Edmund Wilson, one of the most prominent critics of his day, called Isabel Bolton’s voice “exquisitely perfect in accent.” Continue reading
by Alice Lowe
In his 1946 New Yorker review of Do I Wake or Sleep, Edmund Wilson, one of the most prominent critics of his day, called Isabel Bolton’s voice “exquisitely perfect in accent.” Continue reading
by Juhi Singhal Karan
Books come and go out of fashion regularly, and literary tastes are as much subject to the tides of time as anything else. This month we feature five books that were thankfully rescued from oblivion and that found their way back to the reading public. Continue reading
“I read somewhere that most people’s favorite teacher is a high school English teacher. That doesn’t mean that English teachers are better than other teachers. It means that rather than talk about amoebas or equations, we talk about feelings – Holden Caulfield’s, Hamlet’s, Hedda Gabler’s – and teenagers are full of feelings, so we’re right up their alley. Teaching literature is like shooting fish in a barrel and damned near solipsistic; every great book is, after all, about me.” Continue reading
by Juhi Singhal Karan
Here’s a list, there’s a list, everywhere there’s lists and more lists! In keeping with the tradition, we bring to you the best of the best, a meta-list if you will, of the best books of 2014, authored by none other than bloomers! Continue reading