Tag Archives: History

The truth of the history of North America; may you have the courage to observe it and absorb it.

Albrecht Durer in his woodcuts crammed a forest of allegorical detail. Andrew Bovell fills his stage with a thicket of ideas and comparisons.

...we need to adjust our sights away from fighting and lift them up to a more worthy goal.

It's a nice family history fantasy that every so often looks very real.

How do you help people whose will to live has been sapped, generation after generation?

Thomas Pynchon is probably the most skilled writer to be published in the English language since Joyce and Woolf.

Doctorow digs to the heart of the topic; he makes us think about the brain from which literature, humour and science emerge.

Whether it's the developed or undeveloped world, women are still second or lower class citizens.

A seal's imagery would be "read" just as though it were text.

This is a beautiful book about faith and belief.