Junot Díaz: The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao
“It’s like a fucking knife in me”, said Junot Díaz, on the pressure to produce a follow-up to his 1996 short story collection Drown, that released to explosive critical acclaim. Greats have been known to succumb, but with the release of his sophomore publication and debut novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Diaz,...
The Buddha of Suburbia – a novel by Hanif Kureishi
Sometime before the world began perceiving him as a once-brilliant success-cliché who’d simply gone stark raving mad and taken to penning scathing novellas about intolerable ex-wives, Hanif Kureishi produced his debut novelThe Buddha of Suburbia – a curiously satirical work that drew almost entirely from Kureishi’s own tumultuous teenage years growing up in the suburbs of...
Spell & Bound Bookshop and Café: A review
The musky smell of crisp, new paper emanating from stacks upon stacks of titles sinks in the moment you enter Spell & Bound Bookshop and Café, the newest place to have moored its enticing anchor in the bustling area of SDA. With its polished wooden floors and spiral staircases, Spell & Bound radiates a cozy,...
Uncle Tungsten
Memories of a Chemical Boyhood Author : Oliver Sacks Rating- 4/5 From his earliest days, Oliver Sacks, the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time and the author of this illuminating and poignant memoir, was irresistibly drawn to understanding the natural world. Born into a large family...
