James Hadley Chase – The Things Men Do
A stainless-steel author
A classic noir in the equally classic style of James Hadley Chase, impeccable master of the genre, able as usual to create...
“Don Pietraviva’s Fences” by Cataldo Russo
A timeless masterpiece
A modern novel already a classic, for both the realism with which it has been designed, and its plot and structure. A...
Muriel Barbery – The Elegance of the Hedgehog
The Indigestibility of Bad Books
A solid batter of pseudo-intellectual clichés with Parisian-Japanese sauce, this novel is about the unlikely redemption of a dejected janitress,...
Jonas Jonasson – The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
An Unpleasant Mess
A novel that should be rightfully ranked in the books-to-be-forgotten category, it is about the picaresque adventures, from birth to extreme old...
Stephen King – Joyland
Let down by the end of his first love story, Devin, a college student, accepts a seasonal job in a small-town amusement park, where...
Elizabeth Jane Howard – The Cazalet Chronicles
As written by Hilary Mantel, Elizabeth Jane Howard is a craftswoman, because in order to build such a monumental work, where nothing is uncalculated,...
Richard Wright – Native Son
Bigger Thomas grew up in the black ghetto of Chicago where, even though he has good examples, he lives day to day on the...
Ray Bradbury – Farewell Summer
The Enchanted Summer tells the story of Tom, Doug, John and other kids (and adults) who live in Green Town, a small town in...
John Williams – Augustus
The human aspect of power
Considering the large number of people who have discovered John Williams’s writing through his most famous novel, Stoner, this “new”...
Jim Fergus – One Thousand White Women
This historical novel is based on a real fact: in 1875 the US president Grant signed a treaty involving the trade of 1000 white...
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Meeting Mark Wingrave: “I’m attracted to what I don’t know”
I came into contact with the artist Mark Wingrave through our shared interest in the work of Ukrainian poet Olga Bragina. Reading a couple...
