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Herman Melville: Bartleby the Scrivener

June 27, 2016February 11, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Herman Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Herman Melville Tags 1800s, 1850s, 1853 19 Comments

Cormac McCarthy: The Orchard Keeper

June 27, 2016February 7, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s debut, The Orchard Keeper. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 1960s, 1965 19 Comments

Karen Russell: Swamplandia!

June 27, 2016January 30, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Karen Russell Tags 2010s, 2011 7 Comments

Hannah Pittard: The Fates Will Find Their Way

June 27, 2016January 26, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Hannah Pittard’s debut, The Fates Will Find Their Way. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Hannah Pittard Tags 2010s, 2011 4 Comments

Heinrich Böll: The Clown

June 27, 2016January 22, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Heinrich Böll’s The Clown. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Heinrich Böll Tags 1960s, 1963, German, Nobel Prize 7 Comments

Alexandros Papadiamantis: The Murderess

June 27, 2016January 18, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Alexandros Papadiamantis’s 1903 novel, The Murderess. Read the full post.

Categories Alexandros Papadiamantis, Book Reviews Tags 1900s, 1903, Greek, NYRB Classics 13 Comments

Vivant Denon: No Tomorrow

June 27, 2016January 14, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vivant Denon’s 1777 novella, No Tomorrow. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Vivant Denon Tags 1700s, 1777, French, New Directions, NYRB Classics 21 Comments

George Saunders: The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

June 27, 2016January 10, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews George Saunders’s The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, George Saunders Tags 2000s, 2005 8 Comments

Louise Erdrich: Shadow Tag

June 27, 2016January 6, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Louise Erdrich’s Shadow Tag. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Louise Erdrich Tags 2010, 2010s 10 Comments

J.M. Coetzee: Dusklands

June 27, 2016January 2, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee’s debut novel, Dusklands. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M. Coetzee Tags 1970s, 1974, Nobel Prize 13 Comments
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