Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andreï Makine

There is a tune, for which I’d gladly part
With all Rossini, Weber, and Mozart,
An ancient air, whose languid melody
Has secret charms that speak only to me*…
We’ve all had them, those dreams whose intimations of life are so strong that we can see, smell, and embrace someone we love and long for just as they slip [...]

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Disgrace

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee’s 1999 Booker Prize winning novel about an academic spiraling from control, is a huge novel stated in just over 200 pages. And it’s spiraling from a state of controlling, not out of control, an important distinction within these taut pages. David, a 52-year old academic, finds himself on the outs of the [...]

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