“I was thirty-seven then, strapped in my seat as the huge 747 plunged through dense cloud cover on approach to the Hamburg airport. Cold November rains drenched the […]
German literature
The Pigeon
“A pigeon had settled on the windowsill. It was gray, with a dirty white breast, and it sat there motionless, as if it had been sitting there forever.” […]
American literature
Beloved
“Sixty Million and more.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved Part One Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a haunted house at 124 Bluestone Road […]
English literature
The Child in Time
“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours […]