Monthly Archives: December 2019

Reading Well: Elizabeth Costello by J.M. Coetzee

I usually really react well to J.M. Coetzee’s work (see Disgrace). Elizabeth Costello (2003) is a very strange novel. There are two dominant modes in the book: one is a series of lectures given by the eponymous lead character; the … Continue reading

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Reading Graphically: 5 Graphic Novels

{so, yeah … many months have passed. We’ll be catching up over the next few weeks.} Another interlude … Pierre Paquet and Tony Sandoval‘s A Glance Backward (2015) is a translation of Paquet’s original work in French, telling a fantastical … Continue reading

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