Richard Stern: Other Men’s Daughters
Trevor looks at Richard Stern’s Other Men’s Daughters, a complicated and often frustrating look at late 1960s New England from a decidedly 1970s perspective.
Book Reviews
Patrick Modiano: Such Fine Boys
Trevor reviews Patrick Modiano’s Such Fine Boys, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, and published this week by Yale University Press.
Patrick Modiano: Sundays in August
Trevor reviews his new favorite Patrick Modiano book: Sundays in August, translated from the French by Damion Searls.
Mohsin Hamid: Exit West
Paul reviews Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker Prize Longlisted Exit West, a book he’d love to see on the shortlist and wouldn’t mind seeing take the prize.
Kamila Shamsie: Home Fire
Paul reviews Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire, a reworking of Antigone set in the modern day which is a Man Booker Prize contender.
Mike McCormack: Solar Bones
Lee reviews Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones, the book that won last year’s Goldsmiths Prize, set up to “celebrate qualities of creative daring” and to “reward fiction that breaks the mould or extends the possibilities of the novel form.” The book is also a contender for this year’s Man Booker Prize.
Alice Munro: Friend of My Youth
Betsy and Trevor are moving on to the latter half of Alice Munro’s career, starting their story-by-story examination of her 1990 collection Friend of My Youth. This post provides an overview of the book as well as links to the reviews as they post.
Andrés Barba: Such Small Hands
The starting point for this strange little novel by Spanish novelist Andrés Barba was a ghastly game in a Brazilian orphanage in the 1960s. Trevor takes a look at Barba’s Such Small Hands, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
Marie NDiaye: My Heart Hemmed In
Trevor looks at Marie NDiaye’s My Heart Hemmed In, translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
Zadie Smith: Swing Time
Lee reviews Zadie Smith’s Swing Time, which was recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.