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Mental shallows

A splendid simile for a shallow-minded person, and I loved the 'nethermost sediment', in which murk turbid calculations are taking...

In Couto's superb novel, a disturbed father tries to isolate his sons from life and learning by taking them to...

Balint is the splendid principal character in this tapestried look at the decline of Hungary's aristocracy before the First World...

Wouldn't you love an uncle who could walk up and down both sides of a straight ladder, especially the part...

The Hungarian poet György Faludy (1910-2006) decides what to write on the eve of his execution. In the event, he...

Ryder's father seems to have a quiet, relentless sadism about him, positively enjoying any discomfiture he can inflict on his...

Maxim Gorky had a brutally hard childhood, captured vividly in the first of his three memoirs. Among other losses, he...

A warm, lively image of a Sunday morning family stroll to church.

'Dandy fathers and brothers, and straw-bonneted mothers, shepherd...

Following the death of his father when he was a small boy, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) went with his mother to...