2026-10-02 · Sydney Morning Herald - Latest News
🔮 East of Eden ★★★
When John Steinbeck’s East of Eden was published in 1952, The New Yorker’s review was famously scathing of the novel, essentially a secular retelling of the Book of Genesis, describing it as “the precise equivalent of those 19th-century melodramas in which the villains could always be recognised because they waxed their moustaches”. assertive