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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

César Aira: Varamo

July 11, 2016February 5, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews César Aira’s Varamo, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, César Aira, Chris Andrews Tags Spanish 6 Comments

Milton Rokeach: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

July 11, 2016January 25, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Milton Rokeach’s 1964 psychological case study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Milton Rokeach Tags 1960s, 1964, NYRB Classics 5 Comments

Denis Johnson: Train Dreams

July 11, 2016January 3, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Denis Johnson Tags 2000s, 2002 15 Comments

Nikolai Gogol: The Night Before Christmas

July 11, 2016December 25, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nikolia Gogol’s The Night Before Christmas. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Nikolai Gogol Tags 1830s, 1832, Russian 10 Comments

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: The Letter Killers Club

February 22, 2018December 19, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s strange novel, The Letter Killers Club, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull.

Categories Book Reviews, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Tags 1920s, 1926, NYRB Classics, Russian 7 Comments

Osamu Dazai: Schoolgirl

July 11, 2016December 6, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Osamu Dazai’s Schoolgirl, translated from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Osamu Dazai Tags 1930s, 1939, Japanese 3 Comments

Gyula Krúdy: The Adventures of Sindbad

July 11, 2016November 30, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gyula Krúdy’s The Adventures of Sindbad, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Gyula Krúdy Tags 1940s, 1944, Hungarian, NYRB Classics 7 Comments

Albert Cossery: The Colors of Infamy

July 11, 2016November 29, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Albert Cossery’s The Colors of Infamy, translated from the French by Alyson Waters. Read the full post.

Categories Albert Cossery, Book Reviews Tags 1990s, 1999, French, New Directions 1 Comment
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