Modern Library Revue
October 22, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #14 I, Claudius 4
by Lydia Kiesling
I confess: all I know about Alexander the Great I learned from Mary Renault (and how).
September 17, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #11 Under the Volcano 9
by Lydia Kiesling
While Dante urged me to strive up, up, up toward heaven’s crooning saints and brightly-lit pinwheels, Malcolm Lowry lit my cigarette and told me it’s always nighttime inside the bar. It was a confusing period in my life.
August 13, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #58 The Age of Innocence 3
by Lydia Kiesling
Were Ellen Olenska on Jersey Shore, she would be the pasty, sober blonde in a ruffled one-piece.
May 26, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #62 From Here to Eternity 2
by Lydia Kiesling
Seven hundred pages is, at best, a dear friend and at worst, a co-worker, the kind who sends you political forwards.
May 19, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #71 A High Wind in Jamaica 11
by Lydia Kiesling
I want not to resort to the repellent vernacular of the internet meme, but my reaction to the book is difficult to express otherwise, so, Wow. Just….wow.
March 31, 2010
Modern Library Revue: #67 Heart of Darkness 13
by Lydia Kiesling
“White man oppresses black man, is oppressed in turn by jungle mysteries.”
