Wading Through Treacle

  Warning : mild spoilers ahead. If you’re intending to read the novel you might want to skip this review. --- Amelia Ayrelan Iuvino writes ...

A physicist contemplates ethics and death 1. They lay companionably side by side in the oversized bed, sunk into hollows shaped by long occu...

  Note I used the research paper below (which I translated) as background to my recent story, La Double Inconstance . The text is quite tech...

 "Anyone can write a novel given six weeks, pen, paper and no telephone or wife," said Evelyn Waugh. Anyone? Really? To think good...

  Amazon link Irène Némirovsky's autobiographical novel, in which she lacerates her father as a cheap, low-class trader unworthy of her...

A Country Walk What’s mostly on his mind as they start this walk is something he certainly hasn't discussed with his companion of ...

Rebecca “Give me the key,” she says, sprawled out on the couch. I go to my special place, retrieve it and put it in her hand. She clas...

In Bruges She is in Bruges. She is sitting outside a restaurant in late summer sunlight, drinking a glass of wine by herself. She ha...

Superposition There is a sense of doubled vision here: Strolling in the street you are severe Your sensuality diffused from all but me Mat...