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Imre Kertész: Fiasco

June 27, 2016March 28, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s Fiasco. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Imre Kertész Tags 1980s, 1988, Hungarian, Melville House, Nobel Prize 6 Comments

Cynthia Ozick: The Puttermesser Papers

June 29, 2016March 25, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cynthia Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Cynthia Ozick Tags 1990s, 1997 4 Comments

Ann Beattie: Walks with Men

June 29, 2016March 21, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ann Beattie’s Walks with Men. Read the full post.

Categories Ann Beattie, Book Reviews Tags 2010, 2010s 5 Comments

Javier Marías: Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico

June 29, 2016March 14, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Bad Nature, or With Elvis in Mexico, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Javier Marías Tags 1990s, 1996, New Directions, Spanish 11 Comments

Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time to Keep Silence

June 15, 2017March 7, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 1957 travel memoir, A Time to Keep Silence.

Categories Book Reviews, Patrick Leigh Fermor Tags 1950s, 1953, Nonfiction 9 Comments

J.A. Baker: The Peregrine

June 27, 2016March 3, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.A. Baker’s strange 1967 book, The Peregrine. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.A. Baker Tags 1960s, 1967, NYRB Classics 10 Comments

Jacques Chessex: A Jew Must Die

June 27, 2016February 25, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jacques Chessex’s A Jew Must Die, translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jacques Chessex Tags 2000s, 2009, French 2 Comments

Dezsö Kosztolányi: Kornél Esti

June 27, 2016February 22, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Dezsö Kosztolányi’s 1933 book, Kornél Esti, translated from the Hungarian by Bernard Adams. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Dezsö Kosztolányi Tags 1930, 1933, Hungarian, New Directions 4 Comments

John O’Hara: Appointment in Samarra

June 27, 2016February 18, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John O’Hara’s Appointment in Samarra. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, John O'Hara Tags 1930s, 1934 12 Comments

Gert Hofmann: Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl

June 27, 2016February 15, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gert Hofmann’s Lichtenberg & the Little Flower Girl, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Gert Hofmann Tags 1990s, 1994, German, New Directions 9 Comments
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