Berlin Stories: Part 1

“I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in the kimono washing her hair. Some day, all this will have to be developed, carefully printed, fixed.” – Christopher Isherwood, 1930 Waiting. That’s what happens when you get older. When [...]

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit is about a girl’s coming of age and self-acceptance in a community that punished difference. Set in the 1960s, the character learns to make her own opinions about herself and the world. Critics consider Winterson’s 1985 semi-autobiographical account as one of the best productions of modern fiction [...]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The God of Small Things begins with a quotation from the writer John Berger: “Never again will a single story be told as though it’s the only one.” Thus, even as the novel dives into non-linear, multi-voiced perspectives, it is built around the experiences of the twins, Rahel and her brother Estha, the “small things” [...]