On Anna Karenina
24 days ago
karenin is harder to dismiss as a villain than i expected, there is something genuinely sad about a man who only knows how to perform dignity
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Grey afternoons and devastating last pages. Coffee always.
On Anna Karenina
24 days ago
karenin is harder to dismiss as a villain than i expected, there is something genuinely sad about a man who only knows how to perform dignity
On The God of Small Things
1 months ago
i understand now why she spent ten years writing this. every sentence was earning what that ending asks you to hold
On The Goldfinch
1 months ago
pippa feels just out of reach the same way theo feels just out of reach of his own life — they're both haunted by the same moment
On The Year of Magical Thinking
2 months ago
her prose has always been cool and controlled but here the control is clearly costing her something
On Homegoing
2 months ago
the two half-sisters who never meet anchoring a whole novel across centuries is such an audacious structural choice and it's working