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Diego Marani: New Finnish Grammar

July 14, 2016April 11, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Diego Marani’s New Finnish Grammar, translated from the Italian by Judith Landry. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Diego Marani Tags 2000, 2000s, Italian 5 Comments

Nescio: Amsterdam Stories

June 2, 2017March 23, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nescio’s Amsterdam Stories, a collection of all of Nescio’s major works, available in English for the first time, translated from the Dutch by Damion Searls. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Nescio Tags 1910s, 1911, 1915, 1918, 1940s, 1946, Dutch, Short Story 6 Comments

Moacyr Scliar: Kafka’s Leopards

July 12, 2016March 21, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Moacyr Scliar’s Kafka’s Leopards, translated from the Portuguese by Thomas O. Beebee. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Moacyr Scliar Tags 2000, 2000s, Portuguese 3 Comments

Edouard Levé: Suicide

July 12, 2016March 15, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Edouard Levé’s Suicide, translated from the French by Jan Steyn. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Edouard Levé Tags 2000s, 2008, Dalkey Archive, French 6 Comments

Juan José Saer: Scars

July 12, 2016March 12, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Juan José Saer’s Scars, translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, José Saer Juan Tags 1960s, 1969, Open Letter Books, Spanish 5 Comments

Tove Jansson: The Summer Book

July 12, 2016March 7, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tove Jansson’s 1972 novel, The Summer Book. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jansson Tove Tags 1970s, 1972, Swedish 6 Comments

Jean Strouse: Alice James: A Biography

June 15, 2017February 24, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews jean Strouse’s 1980 biography of Alice James.

Categories Book Reviews, Jean Strouse Tags 1980, 1980s, NYRB Classics 1 Comment

Geoff Dyer: The Missing of the Somme

July 11, 2016February 19, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Geoff Dyer’s The Missing of the Somme. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Geoff Dyer Tags 1990s, 1994 6 Comments

Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”

February 23, 2018February 11, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”

Categories Book Reviews, Flannery O'Connor Tags 1950s, 1953, Short Story 6 Comments

Steven Millhauser: The King in the Tree

July 11, 2016February 9, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Steven Millhauser’s The King in the Tree. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Steven Millhauser Tags 2000s, 2003, Short Story 2 Comments
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