GOLDEN LANGUR CONSIDERS WHAT THE TITLE OF A WRITTEN PIECE LENDS TO THE WHOLE. A. L. Kennedy, the judge of 2011 Bridport Short Story and Flash Fiction Prize, commented: A number of writers seemed to have real difficulty finding a title that would help them . . . She went on to say that the [...]
R. L. TILLEY WALKS IN HEMINGWAY’S SHOES, IN CUBA. In Santiago de Paula we walk up to Finca Vigia, Hemingway’s old home, now a museum. A leafy driveway leads to the place, which is surrounded by gardens. It is pretty much as he left it in 1960, when he left for Spain and then [...]
IDA JONES RECOUNTS AN EXCURSION INTO RUSSIA. A Baltic sea cruise, 2001 - seven countries in fourteen days. Next stop St. Petersburg. We had attended the talk the previous evening and were advised we should stay with our tour guide and not go off on our own. It was the only city that welcomed us [...]
DAVID A. TROMAN REVIEWS ROBERT CHANDLER’S TRANSLATION OF LESKOV’S WORK. Book Synopsis: Katerina Lvovna Izmailova is the lady of the title. A merchant’s wife in mid-nineteenth century Russia, she is given into a loveless marriage, which moves her from the prison of her parents’ house to that of her husband’s. Her husband goes away on [...]
THIS BOOK WON THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE IN 2002. It is a weird and wonderful book telling the singularly unlikely story of the shipwreck of a young Indian, Piscine, the Pi of the title, who traverses the seas in a lifeboat for 227 days in the company of a four hundred and fifty pound tiger, and self-evidently [...]
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