Re-Learning to Bark: Canine Love and Loss

The subtitle to A Sheepdog Named Oscar says this is a book about Love and Companionship in Rural Ireland. It goes beyond “Love and Companionship,” however, as obviously implicit to any love, and indeed companionship, is loss, its unhappy bedfellow. Love, inevitably, hurts. Peaks and troughs. Sorrow and joy. Central to the dichotomy depicted here … Read more

Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob

In a quiet room, two men smoke hashish and discuss the inevitability of the Apocalypse. All the signs are apparent: unusual weather conditions, social unrest, unendurable suffering caused by poverty and war. Searching for a loophole, they weave theories of increasing complexity, involving Messiahs, the reversing of the Old Laws, and the triumph of the … Read more

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