Between The Purple Passages


by Ashley Zimunya


  • About
  • Prose and Poetry
  • The Stage and Beyond
  • Faith and Culture
  • Book ReviewsReviews
  • Past Essays
  • Hamnet (Chloé Zhao, 2026): A Meditation on Love, Grief, and Art*

    *features mention of an assumed stillbirth Anyone who knows me well knows that second only to Jesus in my life is Shakespeare. Anyone who knows me really well will know that Hamlet is my favourite Shakespeare play, has been one of my favourite plays in the history of plays since… Continue reading

    The Stage and Beyond
    Chloe Zhao, Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell, Shakespeare
  • Review: The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Tinder Press, 2022)

    Lucrezia can see that they are nearing Santa Maria Novella; there isn’t much time. These are the last moments of her girlhood – with every passing second, her time with her family is ebbing away. Very soon, she will be married. The feasting, the dancing and the gaming have already… Continue reading

    Book Reviews
    Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Maggie O’Farrell, My Last Duchess, Robert Browning, The Marriage Portrait

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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