Review: The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Stranger is often held up as exhibit a of Albert Camus’s philosophy, to embrace of the “absurd,” a term… read more
Dubliners by James Joyce, Ireland’s 魯迅 (Lu Xun)?
Dubliners is a collection of fifteen short stories depicting its titular characters by Irish author James Joyce. Cast in a… read more
Review: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Widely recognized as Leo Tolstoy’s magnum opus, War and Peace is a tome of Russian literature and viewed as one… read more
Recollections of a Difficult Past: Personal Reflections on 大江大海 by 龍應台
Poring over black and white photographs is a surreal experience. In the mildewed, dusty room of my deceased grandfather’s bedroom,… read more
Review: Germinal by Émile Zola
Germinal, one of the defining novels of French literature, and arguably Émile Zola’s crowning achievement in his literary career, is… read more