Category Archives: Literary

READ: This Cake Is for the Party by Sarah Selecky

A man with a hard decision to make about the neighbour’s boy. A woman who tries to sell health products to her friends. Two couples entangled in infidelity. A woman writing a letter to her estranged husband’s mother. A young … Continue reading

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The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung (review)

In translation theory, there are two main factions: the “naturalizers” and the “foreignizers” The naturalizers think that literature should be translated in a language that feels natural to the reader, as if it had been written originally in their language. … Continue reading

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The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes (review)

I want to start by saying that this book is of the kind that wakes up the half-trained literary scholar in me. But that’s to be expected of Booker-prize-winning novels. To say that Tony, the main character and narrator of … Continue reading

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