Announcing Mookse Madness 2019: Booker Darlings
Over on the Goodreads group, we are preparing for next year’s Mookse Madness already! See what we have in store!
Trevor Berrett
The Criterion Collection Announces December 2018 Releases
The Criterion Collection has announced its December 2018 releases.
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya: “Poor Girl”
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s “Poor Girl,” translated from the Russian by Anna Friedrich.
National Book Award: Longlist for Fiction
The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the Fiction award.
National Book Award: Longlists for Poetry and Nonfiction
The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Poetry and Nonfiction awards.
National Book Award: Longlists for Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature
The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the Translated Fiction and Young People’s Literature awards.
Jean Améry: Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man
Trevor reviews Jean Améry’s 1978 novel-essay, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor: Portrait of a Simple Man, translated from the German by Adrian Nathan West.
Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls
Trevor reviews Pat Barker’s war novel, The Silence of the Girls, a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Achilles’s captive Briseis.