Trevor reviews Friedrich Reck’s World War II journal entries that end when he was executed, collected in Diary of a Man in Despair, translated from the German by Paul Rubens. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Vasily Grossman’s posthumously published travel memoir, An Armenian Sketchbook, translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler.
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Paul Theroux’s “The Furies” was originally published in the February 25, 2013 issue of The New Yorker. Betsy “The Furies” reveals why so few people go to their 40th high school reunion — the badly treated old friends, girlfriends, boyfriends.
“Reeling for the Empire” is the second story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. For an overview with links to review of the others stories in this collection, please click here. Hmmm. After a great first story, “Vampires in the Lemon Grove” (my thoughts here), I now sit scratching my head
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