Book review
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Book in the spotlight: Kaputt by Curzio Malaparte The paperback edition of Curzio Malaparte’s Kaputt contains an afterword that really should have been the novel’s introduction. Its placement at the end of the text is deceptive but, from the publisher’s point of view, probably necessary – if it preceded the text, I suspect a lot less people…
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Book in the spotlight: Superbloom by Nicholas Carr Nicholas Carr is the Cassandra of the digital age. In 2010 he published The Shallows, a contrarian bestseller that examined the deleterious effects of the Internet on our brains. In Superbloom, his latest book, Carr examines the deleterious effects of digital technology on our souls. The first…
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Book in the spotlight: Notes of a Dead Man by Mikhail Bulgakov In March of 1936, the hilariously named Soviet newspaper Pravda (Russian for “truth”) published a scathing review of Mikhail Bulgakov’s play Molière. The review attacked the work for its supposedly flawed historicism and called into question its ideological soundness. Today the hit piece…
The Writings of Scriptor Adorans 