Tana French: The Wych Elm

Rossetti’s wombat

Cathleen Schine: They May Not Mean To, But They Do

I’m not normally a fan of American family dramas, but I did enjoy this one.

The great procession of Fate

 

All Knausgaarded out

 

Dear Readers, some of you may remember that one us rashly undertook to read all six books of Knausgaard’s My Struggle. I was that Gert and I have a confession to make.

Harry Frankfurt: On Bullshit

Sigrid Nunez: The Last Of Her Kind

 

I did not yet know that, contrary to youth’s sense of itself as tolerant, freethinking and egalitarian, it is more often stubbornly critical and judgmental, priggish and snobbish.  I would find these faults much later (glaring) in my son and daughter and their friends. But at that age myself, I did not see how we truly were, nor did I put it together that these faults were often worst in those with the strongest political opinions. (113)

An invitation, with strings attached

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days (Benjamin Franklin)

Kate Atkinson: Transcription