Sitting unpublished for over 100 years, Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fame is a welcome exploration of the doors that shut as time passes onward. Published by NYRB Classics this week, Trevor highly recommends it in this review.
Trevor takes a look at Willa Cather’s debut novel, 1912’s Alexander’s Bridge.
Trevor and Betsy take a look at Alice Munro’s “Circle of Prayer,” from The Progress of Love.
Paul reviews a book he hoped would make the Man Booker longlist, Benjamin Myers’ The Gallows Pole.
Domenico Starnone’s Ties, translated from the Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri — yes, that Jhumpa Lahiri — is a painful, yet compelling exploration of the hopes and fears that underlie the closest relationships we have.
Paul reviews his favorite to win the 2017 Man Booker Prize, Jon McGregor’s Reservoir 13.
Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s most recent novel, Thus Bad Begins, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.
Lisa Guidarini, from Bluestalking Journal, commences a trip through Penguin’s vintage, numbered spines by looking at Monica Dickens’s Thursday Afternoons.
This week, The Library of America is publishing its third and final collection of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer novels, which includes Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, and The Underground Man. Here, Trevor takes a look at Black Money.
Trevor and Betsy share their thoughts on Alice Munro’s “A Queer Streak,” from The Progress of Love.