28 October 2018 – The Modern Novel

Ivo Andrić: Omerpaša Latas (Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan)

28 October 2018 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Ivo Andrić‘s Omerpaša Latas (Omer Pasha Latas: Marshal to the Sultan). This is one of Andrić’s later novels, set in Bosnia like most of his novels, only just published in English for the first time. It tells of the repression of rebellion in Bosnia in the Ottoman Empire, … Read more

William Melvin Kelley

28 October 2018 by tmn

It was interesting to see in Today’s Observer, an article on William Melvin Kelley and, moreover, claiming his A Different Drummer is a lost literary masterpiece. The book has been on my site since the beginning and I read him many years ago. More interesting is his book Dunford’s Travels Everywheres (yes, it is everywheres … Read more