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Vamsavriksha: Notes from a Reader
The novel Vamsavruksha by S.L. Bhyrappa may suggest, by its title, that it deals with the institution of family and the crises it undergoes through changing times. But it is not merely a story of familial and personal upheaval — it is a philosophical inquiry into identity, moral agency, the tension between…
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Book 4: Winter.
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “When I am tired, my way of reading returns, across three score years and some, to the pleasure of reading like a child again. When I was a child, each time I fell in love…
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Book 3: Autumn
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “The Obstacles to reading are, to some extent, merely a matter of fashion, or of inadequate examples set by parents for Children. What is read remains the pragmatic question, the difference that will make a…
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Book 2: Summer.
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages. Selected by — Harold Bloom “Anyone, of any age reading this volume will see quickly that I do not accept the category of Children’s Literature, which had some use and distinction a century ago, but now all too often is…
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Book 1: Spring
Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages Selected by — Harold Bloom “If readers are to come to Shakespeare and to Chekhov, to Henry James and to Jane Austen, then they are best prepared if they have read Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, Robert Louis Stevenson and…
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