To Criticise or Not To Criticise? You hear criticism and you probably don’t think much of the term (or you may be suspicious) — if that is the case, you are not without reason. We often use the word “criticism” in the negative. For instance, you might have said: “I didn’t like how X criticisedContinue reading “In Defence of Criticism: A Short Essay”
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Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’
★★★☆☆ Chapter 1 of The Secret History begins with a thump, dynamically, boisterously: “Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that snowy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbidContinue reading “Looking at Ruins of Youth: A Review of Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’”
Of Ivory & Gold 