Written Reviews

Jon McGregor: Reservoir 13

July 29, 2017

Paul reviews his favorite to win the 2017 Man Booker Prize, Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13.

The 2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist

July 26, 2017

Featuring mostly heavy-hitting authors but with a few surprises, the 2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist has announced. Booker season has begun!

Javier Marías: Thus Bad Begins

July 26, 2017

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s most recent novel, Thus Bad Begins, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

Kirstin Valdez Quade: “Christina the Astonishing (1150 – 1224)”

July 24, 2017

This week’s New Yorker story is Kirsten Valdez Quade’s “Christina the Astonishing (1150 – 1224).”

Monica Dickens: Thursday Afternoons

July 20, 2017

Lisa Guidarini, from Bluestalking Journal, commences a trip through Penguin’s vintage, numbered spines by looking at Monica Dickens’s Thursday Afternoons.

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