Author: Jonathan Thornton
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FROM BLUE TO BLACK by Joel Lane (BOOK REVIEW)
Joel Lane – From Blue To Black (2000, reissued 2022) “He kissed me fiercely. ‘This place is getting torn apart,’ he said. ‘Tower blocks, expressways. Building ... -
36 STREETS by T. R. Napper (BOOK REVIEW)
“Not the soldiers. Those – those are the same as soldiers anywhere. The Chinese invaders return to their homes from the battlefield here, broken. Their bodies ... -
SLEEP HAS HIS HOUSE by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)
“It is night; and there is nothing false here. Night is reliable. Night does not dazzle us with treacherous fires. Night keeps a dark enduring silence ... -
THEY by Kay Dick (BOOK REVIEW)
Kay Dick – They (1977) “’One must never forget,’ Russel said. ‘I hold it in my mind all the time. That way I’m continually on the ... -
I AM LAZARUS by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)
“What a fiendishly efficient machine war is, she thought, remembering him as he was and the writing, a bit immature but sensitive and direct and with ... -
UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch (BOOK REVIEW)
“We all live in the interstices of each other’s lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.” Under The Net (1954) ... -
ASYLUM PIECE by Anna Kavan (BOOK REVIEW)
“What’s the good of appealing to senseless machinery? The cogs are moving, the engines are slowly gathering momentum, a low humming noise is perceptible even now. ... -
THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY by Laura Jean McKay (BOOK REVIEW)
“Animals are straight up like that. It’s people you have to watch out for.” “Birds are making nonsensical sounds above, but all around me, trails of ... -
THE RUINS OF CONTRACOEUR AND OTHER PRESENCES by Joyce Carol Oates (BOOK REVIEW)
“What is interesting here, from a disinterested/objective perspective, is how the unimaginable improbable will become, within a surprisingly short period of time, the imagined probable. How ... -
Jonathan’s Most Anticipated Reissues for 2022
Goodness, it’s that time of the year again! As we batten down the hatches and distract ourselves from the outside world by getting excited about the ...
