Archive - Silent Friends

Joseph Conrad's Shadow-Line

Another great novella...

Dec 12 • Alex Lanz

Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280

[BONUS] A Steinbeckian Dixie-noir scuzz festival...

Dec 9 • Alex Lanz

Rebecca West's Train of Powder

"History takes no care to point a moral"...

Dec 5 • Alex Lanz

November 2025

Miklós Szentkuthy's Marginalia on Casanova

Cities and buildings are more important characters than the characters...

Nov 29 • Alex Lanz

Conrad's Youth/Heart of Darkness/End of the Tether

If you laugh at "French steamer" you go to the brig...

Nov 21 • Alex Lanz

Loren Singer's Parallax View

[BONUS] If we're not back by dawn call the US Attorney General...

Nov 18 • Alex Lanz

Susan Howe's Penitential Cries

"I've been lucky I say to the indifferent universe"...

Nov 15 • Alex Lanz

Joseph Conrad's Victory

[BONUS] Jeeminy, this was a long novel...

Nov 4 • Alex Lanz

Morten Høi Jensen's Master of Contradictions

Oh to be civilization's literary man...

Nov 2 • Alex Lanz

October 2025

Rereading Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

Because I could not tickle Death he kindly tickled me...

Oct 17 • Alex Lanz

Joseph Conrad's Outcast of the Islands

His Lingard Trilogy might be a quiet masterpiece...

Oct 10 • Alex Lanz

Joseph Conrad's Secret Agent

A most unwanted man...

Oct 4 • Alex Lanz

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