NYRB Classics is currently running a Horror & the Supernatural Sale with around 30 titles you can choose from. I’ve only read six, but these are books I would strongly recommend: MY DEATH by Lisa Tuttle Lisa Tuttle’s My Death is a wonderfully uncanny, subversive tale of artists and creativity, identity, and the erasure of women in…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington had a fascinating life and career, producing both visual and written artworks in her time. Known for her uncompromising prose and paintings, she’s gone through long periods of neglect; however, since the 1970s she’s been periodically rediscovered and her star is somewhat higher now than it was, with her paintings selling […]| Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
Inès Cagnati’s Free Day was the ninth book I read for the #NYRBWomen25 reading project — one I had never heard of before, but which turned out to be a marvellous discovery, much like Maria Dermoût’s gorgeous, enigmatic The Ten Thousand Things, which I read thanks to #NYRBWomen23. Set against the bleak marshlands of southwestern…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories was the eighth book I read as part of the excellent #NYRBWomen25 reading project, and what a sublime collection it was! This also happened to be the first book I read …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I read Caroline Blackwood’s marvellous Great Granny Webster for #NYRBWomen25, the fifth book I’ve now read as part of this terrific reading project. I read this in April but could not write about i…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I had read Elizabeth Hardwick’s essay collection Seduction and Betrayal many years ago but unfortunately did not write about it at the time, although I have a vague recollection of being impressed …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I read Jessica Mitford’s wonderful memoir Hons and Rebels in August as part of Kim’s ‘NYRBWomen24’ reading project but have only gotten to write about it now. I’ve always been fascinated by the Mit…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Françoise Gilot’s terrific memoir Life with Picasso is a book I read for #NYRBWomen24 in May, but only got around to writing about now… created by photogrid In 1953, Françoise Gilot, in her early t…| Radhika's Reading Retreat