This is the second book I’ve read by Clarice Lispector. I read her debut novel, Near to the Wild Heart, and now her last novel. This was...

Background Hila Blum was born and raised in Jerusalem. She has also lived in Hawaii and New York. Her first novel The Visit was...

Background Fernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer considered one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. He...

The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki was published in a serialized format between 1943 and 1948. The novel is about the Makioka...

Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist. She published her first work Near to the Wild Heart when she was 23. The novel...

Crash by J.G. Ballard. You’d be hard-pressed to find a novel as sexually perverse as this one. The story is about a man who discovers a...

The Peregrine by J.A. Baker is one of those rare novels that can never fully be captured or presented by words that exist outside of the...

The Butterfly Lampshade is about a young woman who questions her relationship with reality when her mother suffers a psychotic break. She...

Henry Chinaski is a drunken derelict, the literary alter ego of Charles Bukowski himself. The story's plot is autobiographical; the...