Journey to Nowhere
The first part of the book examines Jonestown itself as it sat in the political climate of Guyana, including shifts in political power and colonial history as well as the poverty present there.
20th Century
20th Century works were written between 1900 and 1999.
These books are the ones most current readers will recognized. The modern novel has been fully developed and fiction has been separated into categories and genre. The 20th century is the root of recent history. It includes events such as suffrage, World War I, World War II, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.
Beginning with the Edwardian Era and the Modernist movement, these years explore experiments with form and structure. Post-War and Interwar fiction is often featured in reviews.
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Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone
When you start reading this very thick book it becomes rapidly clear that Rolling Stone threw Thompson at anything and everything in the hopes that his style would turn whatever reportage he gave them into an instant hit.
Naked City
I think I love Weegee because he is a chronicler of daily life in days gone by. He doesn’t shy away from the ugly parts, but he doesn’t deny the beauty of the ordinary moments that we all take for granted.
Waiting for Godot
I was excited to see a performance offered in our local festival this year. The performance did not disappoint, so I decided to review the play here.
The Book of Evidence
Montgomery takes the reader through events and motivations and all of the gruesome details of his crime without any kind of apology or emotion.
Lives of the Saints
If you think of the themes of a novel like a complex spiderweb, most of the time an overzealous use of repetition is akin to the author shoving the reader into the centre of it.
The Metamorphosis
There’s something really nice about having a classic novel or collection of short stories gathered into a pretty little book. It’s perfect for travel.
Fair Play
When you hear the name Tove Jansson, you probably automatically think of Moomin, but Jansson was much more than the exploits of everyone in Moomin Valley.
Weight of the Earth
In these tapes, Wojnarowicz discusses a vast variety of topics but mostly settles on art, dreams, and death as he processes his HIV diagnosis and impending end of life.
Grace Period
Leaving Lisbon and revisiting the small town he remembers only vaguely, he is accosted both with the familiarity and strangeness of locations he left so long ago.