Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Atonement Revisited: On Writing and ‘The Briony Question’

    I can’t technically join the masses in saying Atonement is Ian McEwan’s masterpiece, being the only novel of his that I’ve read. But I happily join them in singing its praises as a masterful piece of literature. McEwan’s prose is spellbindingly beautiful and the novel is rich with the metaphors… Continue reading

    Prose and Poetry
    Atonement, Briony Tallis, Imagination, Writing

About

If your hobbies also include reading, thinking excessively about everything you read, and learning other people’s thoughts on the things they’ve read recently or a long time ago, you’re very welcome here!

This is where you can find my observations on various texts (a text here being anything that can be ‘read’ and thus including film, theatre, or Taylor Swift lyrics, for example) and what I think can be found between their “purple passages”.

Recent Posts

  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*
  • The Texts from my Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Non-Fiction
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Prose Fiction

Recent Posts

  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*
  • The Texts From My Degree That Have Impacted Me The Most: Drama
  • My 2025 in Books*

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