The Wind That Lays Waste begins in the great pause before a storm. Reverend Pearson is...
The True Deceiver
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Madame Bovary
With Madame Bovary Flaubert established the realistic novel in France. Yet he always refused to...
L’Assommoir
"I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere...
Thérèse Raquin
Thanks to our guest reviewer, Kenny Campbell. "I was familiar with Zola's later career, and knew...
Mister N
Mister N has checked himself into a hotel. Anyway, he's pretty sure it's a hotel. His rooms are...
Babylon
With shades of Abigail's Party and The Outsider, in Yasmina Reza's keenly observed and unsettling...
A Crack in the Wall
Buenos Aires, a city in flux. Everywhere old buildings are coming down and in their place faceless...