Reading “Love Me Tender” was a very interesting experience. The writing felt a bit similar to “The Book of Chameleons” in that some of the chapters are extremely short and the narration is simple to understand.I like that Constance decided to live her …
Reading “Love Me Tender” was a very interesting experience. The writing felt a bit similar to “The Book of Chameleons” in that some of the chapters are extremely short and the narration is simple to understand.I like that Constance decided to live her …
Looking back on this course as a whole, I feel like one of the biggest things that stuck with me is how much these texts resist being pinned down. At the beginning, I thought we were just going to read a bunch of novels and analyze them in a pretty straightforward way, but instead it […]
I really enjoyed this novel. It felt different from a lot of the other things I’ve read so far, mostly because of how direct and stripped down it is. The writing is minimalist and straightforward, but that’s what made me like it. There’s no overexplaining or beating around the bush. Things are just said quickly and […]
I am deeply disturbed. The story follows three women forced into polygamous marriages, starting with Ramla, who has just finished high school and found true love, only for her parents to marry her off to a fifty-year-old rich man because money. Then there’s Hindou, Ramla’s sister, who is married to her alcoholic, abusive cousin, who […]
Djaïli Amadou Amal, The Impatient
A conversation with Djaïli Amadou Amal
Wow. I think we can all agree that My Brilliant Friend had quite the brilliant end. If someone wrote a 100-hundred-page thesis on the significance of Marcello wearing the shoes laboured over by Lila that Stefano bought, I would read it front to back. In a way, I feel like I already did by reading […]
A conversation with Ann Goldstein
Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd
