To celebrate Halloween, let’s let a little guy come in an review Otfried Preussler’s children’s book The Little Witch, translated from the German by Anthea Bell. My wife and our four-year-old son review the book. Read the full post.
Lee reviews Kent Haruf’s final book, Our Souls at Night. Read the full post.
P.T. Smith reviews Enrique Vila-Matas’s The Illogic of Kassel, translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean and Anna Milsom and released by New Directions. Read the full post.
This week’s New Yorker fiction is Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “Who Will Greet You at Home.” Read the full post.
William Sloane’s only two novels, 1937’s To Walk the Night and 1939’s The Edge of Running Water, were recently published in one volume by NYRB Classics as The Rim of Morning: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror. Trevor reviews the delightful volume. Read the full post.
Lee reviews this year’s Man Booker Prize winning novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village.
This month Taschen has released one of the most magnificent books of the year, The Charlie Chaplin Archives. Read the full post.
Elizabeth Taylor has entered my personal Pantheon, largely on the strength of this single novel, A Wreath of Roses, which I think everyone should go read.
