The Library of America recently released a three-volume box set of the collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer. The set also comes with their illustrated biography Singer: An Album. It’s beautiful! And I have two to give away! Read the full post and enter the giveaway!
Trevor reviews a book that will surely make his top ten of 2016 list, Jakob Wassermann’s posthumously published autobiographical novel, My Marriage, translated from the German by Michale Hofmann. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Elliott Chaze’s dark noir, Black Wings Has My Angel, first published in 1953 and released this week in a new NYRB Classics edition.
Trevor reviews Andrés Neuman’s collection of short stories, The Things We Don’t Do, translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia. Read the full post.
Trevor and Betsy offer their discussion of Alice Munro’s holiday treat, “The Turkey Season,” from The Moons of Jupiter.
Trevor reviews Enrique Vila-Matas’s short book Because She Never Asked, translated from the Spanish by Valerie Miles and published by New Directions. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews the latest César Aira novel to appear in English, Dinner, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver. Read the full post.
Chris reviews Peter De Vries’ 1961 novel The Blood of the Lamb and wishes for more De Vries, please. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Barbara Comyns’s 1950 novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, recently published in a new edition by NYRB Classics.