Month: July 2022

Time is suspended in this novel. Not truly because the author typically grounds the story in a particular year but the feeling of time seems ephemeral or inconsequential as does place. She gets us to focus on other things like the vagaries of human connection,…

Janie Crawford’s moment of fulfillment came in adolescence under a pear tree when she communed with the world and was one with it. Growing up at that time meant getting hitched to a man but even then she wasn’t going to simply settle for nothing….

This is a deeply subversive book on many levels but primarily because of what it says about how and why men condescend to women. I want to say this is a book that should be written by a woman but that is wrong. I think…

I have read nearly ten of Mr. Ballard’s novels and a collection of his equally innovative short stories. While the landscapes vary, the times don’t. We are usually place in a futuristic world of decline and decay. Civilization has or is withering away leaving the…