Old women aren’t a common subject for contemporary fiction, not one that captures agents’ or publishers’ commercial attention, I suspect. Even that description is uncomfortable for many, but old lady somehow feels more so to me, genteel and patronising. Below are five novels whose authors have created strikingly memorable old woman, three with links to […] The post Five Novels About Old Women I’ve Read appeared first on A life in books.| A life in books
La Compagnie des loups fait partie de mes films préférés. Que dis-je ? Je voue un culte à l’œuvre de Neil Jordan, à son esthétique surréelle, à son atmosphère étrange et onirique, à sa symbolique vénéneuse et capiteuse qui revisite l’univers … Lire la suite →| yossarian – sous les galets, la page…
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What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the May installment of this column. In my interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr. about his book Dreaming of Autonomous Vehicles: Miles (Miroslav) J. Breuer: Czech-American Writer and the Birth of Science Fiction (2025), an interesting methodological question jumped out to me: what is … Continue reading What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXIII| Science Fiction and Other Suspect Ruminations