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Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nobel Prize. Show all posts
Monday, December 29, 2025

My Books of 2025: A Baker's Dozen of Fiction. Half by Nobel Laureates

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  The Nobel Prize   In 2025, I read 50 books. Of those, thirteen were Fiction.  Of that that baker's dozen, six were by Nobel laureates ...

A Man's Place by Annie Ernaux, a Review

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  Annie Ernaux ’s A Man’s Place is a short book that carries the moral weight of a much larger one. It is nominally about her father—an unr...
Monday, September 15, 2025

August 1914 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ’s August 1914 is the first volume of his The Red Wheel cycle of novels an epic attempt to explain how Russia slid ...
Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Review of In the First Circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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In the First Circle by  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn sharpens the vast world of his Gulag Archipelago  into the story of one vile aspect of a ho...
Wednesday, September 3, 2025

The Remains of the Day – Two Readings, Two Shadows

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro  Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day is, on the surface, a beautifully restrained novel about...
Wednesday, December 18, 2024

"Blindness" by Jose Saramago--terrifying look at society falling apart

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  Blindness  reached out and grabbed me from the first page.  A very ordinary scene of cars waiting for a traffic introduces the horror to c...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

Loving the Book is not the Same as Liking the Author

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Mark Helprin, I love his books, hate his politics   My two favorite living authors are very different men. I have read all of the nove...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Neil’s Best and Worst Books of 2017: Update With Full List

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    Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature I had a few people who read this post ask me about the rest of the ...