I recently finished reading a collection titled the selected poems of Byron, Keats and Shelly. The sense of being alone is a constant theme in the books I’ve read this past year. […]
Isolation in Literature
Toronto Coronavirus Diaries – April 29
It’s been more than a month. Life goes on. Earlier, I was reading an article about how the lockdown has been lifted in Wuhan; however, no one is going out to eat […]
Book Review: The End of the Affair by Graham Green
Title: The End of the Affair Author: Graham Green ‘The End of the Affair’ is an excellent meditation on obsessive love. The protagonist, Maurice Bendrix, is a writer who is having an […]
Reflections on Reading
As a new year has begun, I find myself thinking about the books that read last year and those that I would like to read in the current year. I understand that […]
Literary Lows and Highs
I look out at an almost crescent moon that lights up the clear summer sky. The trees cast ghostly shadows in the dark as the breeze glides over and under. With the […]
Shayan Afzal 