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Antonio di Benedetto: Zama

August 25, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Read the full post.

Categories Antonio di Benedetto, Book Reviews Tags 1950s, 1956, Spanish 2 Comments

David Szalay: All That Man Is

August 18, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews David Szalay’s All That Man Is, which was recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, David Szalay Tags 2010s, 2016, 2016 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 3 Comments

Michael Herr: Dispatches

August 10, 2016 by Chris Phillips

Chris reviews Michael Herr’s Dispatches. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Michael Herr Tags 1970s, 1977 5 Comments

Deborah Levy: Hot Milk

August 8, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, which was recently placed on the Man Booker Prize longlist. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Deborah Levy Tags 2010s, 2016, 2016 Booker Prize, Booker Prize Leave a comment

Wyl Menmuir: The Many

August 5, 2016August 3, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews the shortest book on this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist, Wyl Menmuir’s debut novel The Many. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Wyl Menmuir Tags 2010s, 2016, 2016 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 13 Comments

Ottessa Moshfegh: Eileen

August 2, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews Ottessa Moshfegh’s Eileen, which was just longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Ottessa Moshfegh Tags 2010s, 2015, 2016 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 13 Comments

Louise Erdrich: LaRose

July 29, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Louise Erdrich’s LaRose. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Louise Erdrich Tags 2010s, 2016 1 Comment

William Trevor: Love and Summer

July 22, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews William Trevor’s 2009 novel, Love and Summer, which “can’t, of course, end well,” but that is “brilliant, devastating, and masterfully wrought.”

Categories Book Reviews, William Trevor Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 4 Comments

Hubert Mingarelli: A Meal in Winter

July 15, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Hubert Mingarelli’s A Meal in Winter, translated from the French by Sam Taylor. A Meal in Winter was a finalist for the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Award and just out in the U.S. from The New Press. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Hubert Mingarelli Tags 2010s, 2012, French 2 Comments

Yuri Herrera: The Transmigration of Bodies

July 7, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Yuri Herrera’s The Transmigration of Bodies, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Yuri Herrera Tags 2010s, 2013, Spanish 3 Comments
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