Teffi: Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me
Trevor reviews NYRB Classics’ new collection of personal essays from Teffi, Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me. Read the full post.
Book Reviews
Muriel Spark: Aiding and Abetting
Trevor reviews Muriel Spark’s penultimate novel, 2000’s Aiding and Abetting. Read the full post
Orhan Pamuk: A Strangeness in My Mind
Lee reviews Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness of My Mind, recently shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.
Ross Macdonald: The Zebra-Striped Hearse
This week, The Library of America has released their second volume of Ross Macdonald books: Three Novels of the Early 1960s. The first in the volume is The Zebra-Striped Hearse, featuring Macdonald’s empathetic PI Lew Archer. Trevor reviews that book and looks forward to these LOA volumes. Read the full post.
Blutch: Peplum
Today, the new imprint New York Review Comics, is publishing Edward Gauvin’s translation of Blutch’s 1996 graphic novel Peplum, a strange venture into the mystical brutality of ancient Rome. Read the full post.
Alice Munro: “Labor Day Dinner”
Trevor and Betsy look at Alice Munro’s “Labor Day Dinner,” from her collection The Moons of Jupiter.
Jane Gardam: “Rode By All With Pride”
Lee reviews Jane Gardam’s “Rode By All With Pride,” from The Stories of Jane Gardam. Read the full post.
Jeff Zentner: The Serpent King
Trevor reviews Jeff Zentner’s debut novel, The Serpent King. Read the full post.
Carson McCullers: The Ballad of the Sad Café
Trevor reviews Carson McCullers’ 1951 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. Read the full post.
Patrick Modiano: In the Café of Lost Youth
Trevor reviews Patrick Modiano’s 2007 novel, In the Café of Lost Youth, translated from the French by Chris Clarke and published this week in a new edition by NYRB Classics.