I love Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (À la recherche du temps perdu1). It's a monumental work, which I'm not going to attempt to summarise here, set in late 19th & early 20th century France, largely within the milieu of the Parisian upper classes, dealing primarily with time and memory but also adolescence, … Continue reading A month of not reading Proust
My copy was supplied for review. Warning: spoilers ahead Life is good for Jimmy Cochran. He’s a freelance journalist, investigating supernatural stories for a local paper in New York, is a successful comic illustrator, lives in an apartment overlooking Central Park, and in Sophia, has a fuck-buddy who’s into a bit of BDSM. Yep, all … Continue reading Review: “The Last Breath Before Death” by Alan Golbourn (2024)
Earlier this year I happened across the 1980 Asterix annual in a charity shop; a book whose existence I was entirely unaware of. It was evidently a one-off, and provides an introduction to many of the long-running French comic series’ characters, along with heavily abridged versions of some of the stories, and the usual puzzles … Continue reading Asterix!
Into the Gyre 