It was purely coincidence that the novel I read directly after I read Sebald’s The Emigrants should be Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, but the two invite some worthwhile comparison. Although the reasons for the diaspora of…
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I hope to get to a very brief review, soon, of Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn, a wonderfully slow-and-careful examination of em/immigration that compares in some interesting ways with my last book, Sebald’s The Emigrants. Have any…
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When I began this blog, it was primarily intended as a commitment to myself to take time to record and, hopefully, to reflect on my reading rather than simply to chomp through pages that I…
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Now that classes have started, it’s less and less likely that I’ll ever get round to writing anything more than a mention of my most recent reading — in the last few weeks of summer,…
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I posted this over here, but also want it here as part of the record of my reading. Sorry for the duplication: Last summer, I quoted from a BC Bookworld review of Shannon Stratton’s essay…
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