"Words are powerful. They too can be agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world....

David Malouf, Ransom 

Continuing with my new years resolution to read The Iliad, I am currently reading Ransom by David Malouf. The novel reflects on Priam plea t...

"citizens-though they believe themselves quietly asleep and safe in bed- are corpses he moves among: headless, limbless, savagely hack...