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Michael Frayn: Headlong

June 6, 2016January 9, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Michael Frayn’s Headlong. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Michael Frayn Tags 1990s, 1999, 1999 Booker Prize 14 Comments

John Fante: Wait Until Spring, Bandini

June 5, 2016January 5, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Fante’s Wait Until Spring, Bandini. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, John Fante Tags 1930s, 1938 12 Comments

Roberto Bolaño: Distant Star

June 5, 2016January 1, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Roberto Bolaño’s Distant Star, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolaño Tags 1990s, 1996, New Directions, Spanish Leave a comment

J.M.G. Le Clézio: Desert

May 21, 2020December 28, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M.G. Le Clézio’s Desert, translated from the French by C. Dickson.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M.G. Le Clézio Tags 1980, 1980s, French, Nobel Prize 2 Comments

The Paris Review Interviews

January 25, 2019December 13, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at the four volumes of The Paris Review Interviews.

Categories Book Reviews 7 Comments

Leo Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories

January 25, 2019December 9, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Leo Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.

Categories Book Reviews, Leo Tolstoy Tags 1880s, 1886, Russian 6 Comments

Javier Marías: Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream

October 10, 2018November 30, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Javier Marías’s Your Face Tomorrow, Vol. 2: Dance and Dream, translated from the Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa.

Categories Book Reviews, Javier Marías Tags 2000s, 2004, New Directions, Spanish 5 Comments

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar

October 10, 2018November 26, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sylvia Plath’s 1963 novel, The Bell Jar.

Categories Book Reviews, Sylvia Plath Tags 1960s, 1963 7 Comments

B.S. Johnson: The Unfortunates

October 10, 2018November 22, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews B.S. Johnson’s book in a box The Unfortunates, which has been re-released in a lovely edition by New Directions.

Categories B.S. Johnson, Book Reviews Tags 1960s, 1969, New Directions 15 Comments

David Small: Stitches

October 10, 2018November 18, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews David Small’s new graphic novel Stitches.

Categories Book Reviews, David Small Tags 2000s, 2009, Graphic Novel 3 Comments
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