by Richard Ronald | Sep 8, 2018 | Authors, Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written ten novels in the Southern Gothic, western, and post-apocalyptic genres and has also written plays and screenplays. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for The Road, and his 2005 novel No...
by Richard Ronald | Sep 8, 2018 | Books, Lionel Shriver
Buy Paperback Buy eBook Review from a Transgressive Fiction Fan An epic book like “We Need to Talk About Kevin” is rare, yeah. I can see this as some rather strikingly beautiful monster composed of the few scary parts from Ira Levin’s...
by Richard Ronald | Sep 8, 2018 | Authors, Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver’s novels include the New York Times bestseller The Post-Birthday World and the international bestseller We Need to Talk About Kevin, which won the 2005 Orange Prize and has now sold over a million copies worldwide. Earlier books include Double...
by Richard Ronald | Sep 8, 2018 | Books, Niccolo Machiavelli
Buy Paperback Buy eBook Review from a Transgressive Fiction Fan I’m weirdly pleased that The Prince lives up to its reputation: it is indeed Machiavellian. Here’s his advice on conquering self-governing states (i.e. democracies): “The only way to...
by Richard Ronald | Sep 8, 2018 | Authors, Niccolo Machiavelli
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian political philosopher, musician, poet, and playwright. He is a figure of the Italian Renaissance and a central figure of its political component, most widely known for his treatises on realist political theory (The...
