Category Archives: Literature

Good News on the Literary Front

Posted on Monday, 25 January, 2010 by John

The Times has run an article today on the publication of Iris Murdoch, A Writer at War:Letters and Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Peter J. Conradi, who seems to be doing an excellent job as her literary executor. This is a book I am particularly looking forward to reading. The letters to Frank Thompson should be [...]

Posted in Literature, News | Tagged 2nd World War, Diary, Frank Thompson, Iris Murdoch, letters, Oxford, Peter J Conradi, Plato | Leave a comment

A Thousand Splendid Suns – Khaled Hosseini

Posted on Monday, 15 June, 2009 by John

Positive review of Khaled Hosseini’s novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. Continue reading →

Posted in Literature | Tagged Afghan, Afghanistan, Al Quaeda, America, Herat, islam, jihad, Kabul, Khaled Hosseini, Laila, Mariam, Mujahideen, muslim, novel, Pakistan, Peshawar, russia, Russian, Soviet Union, Taliban, USA | Leave a comment

What I’m Reading – A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch

Posted on Tuesday, 7 April, 2009 by John

I have revisited “A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch” by Alesandr Solzhenitsyn and without in any way detracting from the suffering of those incarcerated in the Gulags, as I read it my mind seemed to be taken back to my days at boarding school. It wasn’t the punishments or the starvation or the [...]