Uncategorized – thomas mcgreevy

India’s diminishing democracy – Narendra Modi threatens to turn India into a one-party state | Briefing | The Economist

The Best Books of 2020, According to the New York Public Library

New catalogue documents art and history of Kinngait textiles | Nunatsiaq News

Ecstatically contorted couples form Malika Favre’s Kama Sutra typeface

The Substackerati | beSpacific

Tor.com Reviewers’ Choice: The Best Books of 2020 | Tor.com

Ranking a Decade of Live-Action Marvel TV by Worthiness (Of Your Time) | Tor.com

Virtual art museums and online exhibits you can visit during pandemic | beSpacific

Small World by Martin Suter
TomMcGreevy's review: "A solid, well written story about the secrets that had been kept hidden within a family over generations. Perhaps its strongest point is the account it gives of the onset of Alzheimer's disease on an elderly man causing him to forget the recent, and remember what others wished to keep buried."
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
TomMcGreevy's review: "A remarkable depiction of what childhood trauma can do to personal development. Yes it is a work of fiction, and a rather good one. Wonderfully written, compassionate, and wise."
Satin Island : a novel by Tom McCarthy
TomMcGreevy's review: "There is something oddly reminiscent of Italo Calvino in this book. Of Wittgenstein too - the structure, the apparent argumentation, towards an insight. Phenomenology as well in that perception is key to understanding. And Claude Lévi-Strauss. Yeah, this is a novel, about a man trying to make sense of his life/work/world. And […]
Swing Time: A Novel by Zadie Smith
TomMcGreevy's review: "In short, life will only get worse tomorrow. Rather unrelentingly..."