Written Reviews

Yi Mun-Yol: “An Anonymous Island”

September 5, 2011

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Yi Mun-Yol’s “An Anonymous Island,” translated from the Korean by Heinz Insu Frenkl. Read the full post.

September Recommendations

September 1, 2011

Here are some September recommendations! Read the full post.

Haruki Murakami: “Town of Cats”

August 29, 2011

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Haruki Murakami’s “Town of Cats,” translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin. Read the full post.

Javier Marías: Your Face Tomorrow, Volume III: Poison, Shadow and Farewell

August 27, 2011

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow, Volume III: Poison, Shadow, and Farewell, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa. Read the full post.

Patrik Ouredník: Europeana

August 24, 2011

Trevor reviews Patrik Ouredník’s Europeana, translated from the Czech by Gerald Turner. Read the full post.

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