Stories By Garan Holcombe
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Non-Fiction Reviews
A Tribute to Hunter S. Thompson: A World to Fear and Loathe More
August 15, 2024Three books changed my life. George Orwell’s 1984, Robert M. Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of...
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Biography
Stanley Kubrick: The Legacy of a Cinematic Legend
August 13, 2024Many continue to see the director’s films as cold and cynical, as being somehow stripped of...
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Spain
Spanish Cinema: Almodóvar and Amenábar
August 11, 2024With camp, hedonistic and sexually vulgar films, notable for their strong, flamboyant women and their comic,...
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Fiction Reviews
The Collector by John Fowles
August 6, 2024Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
December 2, 2023The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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Psychology
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
November 30, 2023He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
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Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
November 17, 2023His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
November 17, 2023‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
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Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
November 13, 2023Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
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Fiction Reviews
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
November 10, 2023There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
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