In order to pursue eternal youth, modern people spend a lot of money on the face to carve out a delicate appearance, a pair of fresh masks attached to the soul. Fleeting appearance, aging...
Since becoming a mother of two children, I have paid special attention to the role of “mother”. Recently, I re-read the novel David Copperfield, written by the British novelist Charles Dickens in the mid-19th...
As an autobiography, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal is a much more complete Jeanette Winterson than Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit or Twelve Christmas Stories – a woman who, despite...
The story tells a story about an orphan who was abused and starved in a correctional center when he was a child. After escaping, he was cheated into a thief’s den. The robber leader...
I bought Animal Farm: A Fairy Story a long time ago. I knew it was a good book. But I never read it. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story was written by George. Orwell, George...
A school shooting leaves Zach without his older brother, Andy, forever. He becomes the “remaining child” in the family, which is plunged into great grief. The mother was Mired in grief for a long...
Soon after his arrival at the circus, the young Jacob witnesses an orgy. The place for revelry is in the circus arena, where characters of all stripes show varying raptures over naked dancers. This...
How many days passed, how many rainy nights passed; Under the recently turned earth, poor old John. Michele lay alone. Manchior had cried aloud several times, but in less than a week Christophe heard...
I had always thought that writing was a “job” made out of nothing, and that almost all writers worked from memory. “Memory” is a very unreliable thing. Does it exist? How to prove it?...
On a recent trip to the airport in the wee hours of the morning, I finished reading Argentine author Carlos Maria Dominguez’s “La Casa de Papel,” which contains two stories, the book’s title story...