Wolfgang Hilbig: The Tidings of the Trees
Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 1996 novel, The Tidings of the Trees, translated from the Germany by Isabel Fargo Cole.
Book Reviews
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.
William Trevor: “The Unknown Girl”
William Trevor’s “The Unknown Girl,” from Last Stories, is a devastating look at a life that didn’t seem worth living.
Wolfgang Hilbig: Old Rendering Plant
Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 1991 novel Old Rendering Plant, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole.
Wolfgang Hilbig: The Sleep of the Righteous
Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 2002 collection of reflections, The Sleep of the Righteous, translated from the German by Isabel Fargo Cole.
Alex Pheby: Lucia
Paul reviews Alex Pheby’s Lucia, a novel about Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce’s and lover of Samuel Beckett, who has, after spending the last 30 years of her life in an asylum, almost been erased from history.
William Trevor: “Taking Mr Ravenswood”
Trevor looks at William Trevor’s “Taking Mr Ravenswood,” from Last Stories. This is one of two stories in the collection that had not been published before.
William Trevor: “At the Caffè Daria”
Trevor looks at William Trevor’s “At the Caffè Daria,” from Last Stories, one of two stories in the collection that had not been published before.
César Aira: The Linden Tree
Trevor looks at César Aira’s 2003 novella, The Linden Tree, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. This is the most recent of Aira’s works to arrive in English.
