Pretentious Book Reviews

Our Pretentious Book Reviewer is back to take a stab at Mary Shelley’s immortal monster novel.

Our pretentious book reviewer takes a stab at Crime and Punishment.

Lindy tackles Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Heavy stuff. Or is it?

Pretentious Book Reviews explores the juvenalia of Jane Austen’s Persuasion.

Deciphering Finnegans Wake is akin to un-jibbering “Jabberwocky.”

For the Advanced Joycean scholar: Periodic loss of vision, migraine or stroke.

The second installment of this Joycean primer covers the Intermediate class. We’ll be reading The Dubliners before snack time.

Bloomsday is less than two months away. Where do you fall on the Joycean spectrum? From novice to psychotic zealot, this guide covers it all.

If someone at The New York Times actually read The City and the Pillar in 1948, their review did little to prove it.