Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Review: If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (Dial Press, 1974)

    Daniel tried to tell Fonny something about what had happened to him, in prison… Sometimes, when Daniel spoke, he cried – sometimes, Fonny held him. Sometimes I did. Daniel brought it out, or forced it out, or tore it out of himself as though it were torn, twisted, chilling metal,… Continue reading

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    If Beale Street Could Talk, James Baldwin

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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