Steven Ray rated Brave New World: 4 stars
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Originally published in 1932, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before. Cloning, feel-good …
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I’m interested in a multitude of things, including social justice, socialism, history, poetry, magical realism (fiction), capitalism, race and class struggle, plus stuff like wine, baseball and music.
So mostly non-fiction, though I read maybe two novels per year and maybe one poetry collection.
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Steven Ray rated The metamorphosis and other stories: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment: 4 stars
Dostoevsky Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
From wikipedia:
Crime and Punishment (Russian: Преступлéние и наказáние, tr. Prestupleniye i nakazaniye; IPA: [prʲɪstʊˈplʲenʲə ɪ nəkɐˈzanʲə]) is a …
Steven Ray rated Collected Poems, 1909-1962: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The essential Rumi: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 4 stars
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the …
Steven Ray rated The Unbearable Lightness of Being: 5 stars
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas …
Steven Ray rated Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1): 4 stars
Steven Ray rated The waste land and other poems: 4 stars
Steven Ray rated Night Sky with Exit Wounds: 4 stars
Night Sky with Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong
Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess …
Steven Ray rated Year of the Monkey: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated The Odyssey: 4 stars
The Odyssey by Όμηρος
The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, …
Steven Ray rated On the Road: 5 stars
Steven Ray rated Shakespeare's sonnets: 4 stars
Shakespeare's sonnets by William Shakespeare (The Arden Shakespeare)
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, …
Steven Ray rated Twenty love poems and a song of despair: 4 stars
Twenty love poems and a song of despair by Pablo Neruda (Penguin classics)
First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly …