Literature
The Liar at the Wheel: A Field Guide to the Unreliable Narrator
A field guide to the unreliable narrator, from the 1926 Christie twist to Stevens of The Remains of the Day (1989), and the signals readers use to catch the lie.
Literature
Essays on literature over time: the development of forms, what writers grouped into a movement genuinely shared, the effect of translation on a text, and why particular books survive their first reception. Historically grounded, written without jargon. For readers who enjoy criticism as much as fiction.
Literature
Where to Start with George Orwell: Essays Before Dystopia
The honest answer to where to start with George Orwell is the essays of the 1940s and the memoir Down and Out in Paris and London (1933), not Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).