Written Reviews

PEN/Faulkner Award Winner

March 15, 2011

The winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award has been announced. Read the full post.

Javier Marías: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

March 14, 2011

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Read the full post.

National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

March 10, 2011

The NBCc Award winners have been announced. Read the full post.

Robert Coover: “Going for a Beer”

March 9, 2011

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Robert Coover’s “Going for a Beer.” Trevor offers his thoughts. Read the full post.

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time to Keep Silence

March 7, 2011

Trevor reviews Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 1957 travel memoir, A Time to Keep Silence.

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