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Kenzaburo Oe: Death by Water

July 14, 2016July 6, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Kenzaburo Oe’s Death by Water, translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Kenzaburo Oe Tags 2000s, 2009, Japanese, Nobel Prize Leave a comment

Kate DiCamillo: Raymie Nightingale

July 1, 2016July 1, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Kate DiCamillo Tags 2010s, 2016, Children's Books Leave a comment

Alice Munro: “The Progress of Love”

August 3, 2017June 24, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor and Betsy begin Alice Munro’s The Progress of Love by looking at its title story.

Categories Alice Munro, Book Reviews 7 Comments

Don DeLillo: Zero K

June 23, 2016 by Lee Monks

Lee reviews Don DeLillo’s Zero K. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Don DeLillo Tags 2010s, 2016 Leave a comment

Aki Ollikainen: White Hunger

June 21, 2016 by Chris Phillips

Chris reviews Aki Ollikainen’s White Hunger, translated from the Finnish by Emily Jeremiah and Fleur Jeremiah. Read the full post.

Categories Aki Ollikainen, Book Reviews Tags 2010s, 2012, Finnish Leave a comment

Vicki Baum: Grand Hotel

June 17, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vicki Baum’s Grand Hotel, translated from the German by Basil Creighton, with revisions by Margot Bettauer Dembo. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Vicki Baum Tags 1920s, 1929, German 3 Comments

Alice Munro: The Progress of Love

August 11, 2017June 15, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Betsy and Trevor are getting ready to post on all of the stories in Alice Munro’s sixth book, The Progress of Love, from 1986. Join them!

Categories Alice Munro, Book Reviews Tags 1980s, 1986, Short Story Leave a comment

Alice Munro: “The Moons of Jupiter”

August 3, 2017June 10, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor and Betsy finish up Alice Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter by looking at its title story.

Categories Alice Munro, Book Reviews 5 Comments

George Eliot: Middlemarch

June 9, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor finally finished George Eliot’s Middlemarch, which was at the top of last year’s “100 Greatest British Novels” list. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, George Eliot Tags 1870s, 1872 9 Comments

Alice Munro: “Visitors”

August 3, 2017June 3, 2016 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor and Betsy look at Alice Munro’s “Visitors,” from The Moons of Jupiter.

Categories Alice Munro, Book Reviews 2 Comments
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