by NRB | 29 May 2024 | Fiction |
Gabrielle Zevin’s bestselling novel set in the world of game designers has a lot to say about writers, too. In Macbeth’s soliloquy beginning ‘Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,’ Macbeth foreshadows his own death, the finality of it and the ephemerality of life....
by NRB | 21 Jan 2021 | Fiction |
Jessica Francis Kane’s second novel delves into the nature of friendship in an age of social media. With a light touch, Kane has written a funny and moving novel that is a study of many things, chief among them friendship. What does friendship give us? How do we...
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