Pocket Reviews

The Ivory Tower of Gracq Presumptuous as few, Gracq describes a ménage a trois, often sublimated by the symbolic world, without ever writing a single...

  Those Little Bourgeois A guncotton thriller, with a gallery of cleverly staged characters and a rhythm that manages to captivate from beginning to end despite...

  Topical Entertainment Cynical and rampant Philip Randall, a young New York lawyer, is trapped in the mesh of his own and others' opportunism. Beyond the final...

  Damages of Religious Manichaeism Bierce gives the best of himself in this short novel presented as the diary of a novice who, despite his religion,...

  Even in Vercelli Wolves Kill A love-and-death story between an Italian teacher from the Piedmont region and a young Iranian-born French woman. After their move...

Watercolor railroad Marked by the rattle of trains, Cassola outlines fragments of choral daily life of families and landscapes crossed by the local railroad tracks....

This book was a contender for the Booker Prize 2019, and IMO it should have won. The story is genius, it begins with the...

In 1840, Cassandra Austen decides to show up unannounced at the vicarage of the Fowle family, that has to be vacated after the vicar's...

The Help is a choral historical novel with three main characters, two black women and one white girl living in the segregated Mississippi during...

Two timelines. In modern-day London, Helen Watt and Aaron Levy find an important collection of letters dating back to 17th Century. This discovery’s not...