Monthly Archives: April 2020

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. Blackwood and sons, London, 1871. F; 4/20. I still have the Riverside paperback version of this I bought at the UBC bookstore in 1968 for an English novel course. But I never read it. I remember looking … Continue reading →

Lerner, Ben. The Topeka School. Farrar, Straus, Giraux, New York, 2019. F;3/20. Number three in Lerner’s novel trilogy, this one fills in time gaps in the life ofthe overtly autobiographical Adam Gordon. Similarly to the second book in the trilogy … Continue reading →

Lerner, Ben. 10:04. Granta, London, 2014. F; 2/20. This is the second of a “trilogy” by this fortyish author, who turned without exclusion from poetry to fiction in about 2011 and has had plenty of success in both genres. The three … Continue reading →