Alice Munro: “Spaceships Have Landed”
Trevor and Betsy look at Alice Munro’s “Spaceships Have Landed,” from Open Secrets.
Book Reviews
Wolfgang Hilbig: The Females
Paul reviews the latest Wolfgang Hilbig novel to come out in English, The Females, which is actually Hilbig’s debut. It was recently translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole and published by Two Lines Press.
Alice Munro: “A Wilderness Station”
Trevor and Betsy take a look at Alice Munro’s “A Wilderness Station,” from Open Secrets.
Raúl Zurita: INRI
Raúl Zurita’s INRI is a powerful volume of poetry that makes the sea, mountains, rivers, deserts, and fields of Chile a tomb for the disappeared of Pinochet’s reign. The sky is the tombstone. It’s a stunning book, coming to us now in a translation from the Spanish by William Rowe.
Ryan O’Neill: Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Paul reviews Ryan O’Neill’s Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers.
Alice Munro: “The Jack Randa Hotel”
Trevor and Betsy return to Alice Munro’s work, looking at “The Jack Randa Hotel,” from her collection Open Secrets.
William Maxwell: They Came Like Swallows
After nearly a decade, I return to the work of William Maxwell. They Came Like Swallows is Maxwell’s second novel and often listed as one of his masterpieces alongside So Long, See You Tomorrow. Here are my thoughts.
Ófeigur Sigurðsson: Öræfi: The Wasteland
Paul reviews Ófeigur Sigurðsson’s Öræfi: The Wasteland, translated from the Icelandic by Lytton Smith.
Jen Craig: Panthers and the Museum of Fire
Paul reviews Jen Craig’s 2015 novella, Panthers and the Museum of Fire.
David Grann: The White Darkness
Trevor reviews David Grann’s latest, The White Darkness, a look at Henry Worsley and his polar exploration.