Tag: book-review
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An Essay on Women’s Fiction in the 20th Century
“Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history” – Virgina Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ The existences of women in fiction and reality are inextricably linked: the lives of literary women have, and always will, mirror…
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Painting Ghosts: A Review of No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
Trigger warning: this review contains discussion of mental health, depression, drug abuse, and suicide. ‘If we knew the antonym of crime, I think we would know its true nature. God… salvation … love … light. But for God there is the antonym Satan, for salvation is perdition, for love there is hate, for light there…
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