Blogs in February 2020

Blood Meridian 9th February 2020

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that...

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Anthill 9th February 2020

Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the “strange, beautiful, and elegant” world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around...

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Vano and Niko 9th February 2020

“Vano and Niko” resembles a catalogue of all the relationships that are possible between people. It is a parable that demonstrates that not only humans but all living beings are engaged in the search for the other. Peter Handke,...

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Adibas 9th February 2020

War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified water of their swimming pools, or the rattling of...

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The Wine-Dark Sea 9th February 2020

A Faust for the post-Soviet era, Peter Zhghenti is a writer and a translator, living in Georgia and dealing with his own Mephistopheles in the form of Writing itself. Bargaining for his soul, and by extension the soul of...

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