Readers in conversation
Public notes, reviews, lists, and conversations around Jan Morris.
This is a well-written, readable, and utterly fascinating travel memoir about one of Earth's most enigmatic nations. The NYRB edition of Hav is two books in one. Last Letters from Hav compiles anecdotes from Morris' six-month stay in 1986, immediately before…
Books that overlap in some way with aspects of the 2019 video game Disco Elysium. Mystery/detective stories occurring in an alternate realty, or a dreamlike para-reality, or with obliquely supernatural elements "Social" mystery/detective stories where the inv…
books unique in style, structure, or some intangible way
