Written Reviews

2017 Man Booker International Prize Winner

June 14, 2017

This year’s Man Booker International Prize winner has been announced!

Andrew Sean Greer: “It’s a Summer Day”

June 13, 2017

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Andrew Sean Greer’s “It’s a Summer Day,” which appears to be an excerpt from his forthcoming novel Less.

The 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction Winner

June 7, 2017

This year’s winner of Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced.

Alice Munro: “Eskimo”

June 2, 2017

Trevor and Betsy share their thoughts on Alice Munro’s “Eskimo,” from The Progress of Love.

César Aira: The Proof

June 1, 2017

Trevor reviews César Aira’s The Proof, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. New Directions published this in a twofer that includes Aira’s The Little Buddhist Monk.

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