The little white attic

From January 2023 to July 2023 In bold: films and plays I think are good  1/ 海街 diary (Our Little Sister - Japan - 2015)  2/ 女が階段を上る時 (When ...

Let other pens dwell on plot, I’d like to focus on the writing—for now.  Flannery O’Connor is very different from Alice Munro. Intense. Bang...

As a short story writer, Alice Munro is in the line of Chekhov. I like that she has great control and writes enough, suggesting much more un...

In Lectures on Russian Literature , Nabokov writes:  “Russian critics have noted that Chekhov's style, his choice of words and so on, di...

Tolstoy, as you know, is the novelist I love and admire the most. One of the reasons is the vast range of characters, vast range of human ex...

Lately, I have been reading and enjoying Gary Saul Morson’s Wonder Confronts Certainty (about Russian literature and history). But I’ve put...

1/ Venus and Adonis , Shakespeare’s first narrative poem and first publication in general, is about the goddess seducing the beautiful man: ...

1/ Having read all the plays, I decided to go for Shakespeare’s non-dramatic poetry. There are a handful of sonnets I know quite well (18, 1...

This is quite a creative production, and in quite a few ways, interesting. It is set today: the Ghost for example is first seen on CCTV, and...

1/ In Shakespearean Tragedy , A. C. Bradley makes an interesting point that Julius Caesa r and Hamlet (two early plays in Shakespeare’s Tra...