Written Reviews

Maile Meloy: “Demeter”

November 12, 2012

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Maile Meloy’s “Demeter.” Read the full post.

Gonçalo M. Tavares: The Neighborhood

November 8, 2012

Trevor reviews Gonçalo M. Tavares’s The Neighborhood, translated from the Portuguese by Roopanjali Roy. Read the full post.

Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth: The Space Merchants

November 6, 2012

Trevor reviews Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s classic science fiction novel The Space Merchants, just published as part of The Library of America’s American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s. Read the full post.

David Gilbert: “Member/Guest”

November 5, 2012

This week’s New Yorker fiction is David Gilbert’s “Member/Guest.” Read the full post.

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time of Gifts

November 2, 2012

Trevor reviews the first book in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s three-book project about his walking trip across Europe in the early 1930s, A Time of Gifts.

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