Category: Late Modern Period (roughly 1800-1950s)
“Great Convict Stories”: Graham Seal on Australia’s Ignominious Beginnings
“Naked Voices”: Stories on Human Fallibility by Saadat Hasan Manto
Chesterton on the Problem with Modern Ethics and Why Dante Matters
“Hunger” (1890) by Knut Hamsun: A Pioneering Work of the Modern Psychology-Driven Narrative
Genius, Obsession, Suspense: Stefan Zweig’s Spectacular “Chess Story” (1941)
“Dante Cinema”, “Villa Venezia”: The Frozen City of Asmara by Jean Robert
Home, an Illusion; in Illusion, Home: Borislav Pekić’s Masterful Book on Arsénie the Landlord
On Art and Aesthetics 