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Nov 26, 20202 min read

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

Everyone, please stop whatever you are doing and go read Jamaica Kincaid's essay A Small Place! This is a work about colonialism, an...

Nov 16, 20202 min read

It has almost been two weeks since I finished reading Naked Lunch and I am still not sure what to make of it. Therefore, the following is...

Nov 16, 20203 min read

(english version below) È Stato Così di Natalia Ginzburg (pubblicato da Einaudi, 1947) è il primo libro della scrittrice dopo la fine...

Oct 31, 20201 min read

After loving Half of a Yellow Sun, I was eager to read more of this wonderful, intelligent woman who made me fall in love with Nigeria...

Oct 29, 20201 min read

Justice in a Changing World is an introduction to the philosophical debate surrounding the question of global justice - what do we owe to...

Oct 24, 20202 min read

On a hot summer day in 1935, imaginative thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis watches her older sister undress and step into a fountain in...