Written Reviews

Kate Walbert: “To Do”

August 26, 2019

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Kate Walbert’s “To Do.”

Anniversaries Readalong: August 28 – September 3, 1967

August 25, 2019

So far so good! With one week down, here is the second post for all of us to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries.

Bernardine Evaristo: Girl, Woman, Other

August 21, 2019

Paul looks at Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other, recently longlisted for this year’s Booker Prize.

J. Robert Lennon: “The Loop”

August 19, 2019

This week’s New Yorker fiction is J. Robert Lennon’s “The Loop.”

Anniversaries Readalong: August 21 – 27, 1967

August 18, 2019

Here we go! Here is the first post for all of us to talk about Uwe Johnson’s Anniversaries.

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