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Robert Walser: The Tanners

May 26, 2018September 3, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Robert Walser’s 1907 novel, The Tanners, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.

Categories Book Reviews, Robert Walser Tags 1900s, 1907, German, New Directions 9 Comments

Jacques Poulin: Translation Is a Love Affair

May 26, 2018August 31, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jacques Poulin’s Translation Is a Love Affair, translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.

Categories Book Reviews, Jacques Poulin Tags 2000s, 2006, Archipelago Books, French 1 Comment

Jonathan Tel: The Beijing of Possibilities

May 26, 2018August 27, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jonathan Tel’s short story collection The Beijing of Possibilities.

Categories Book Reviews, Jonathan Tel Tags 2000s, 2009 7 Comments

Jacques Poulin: Spring Tides

May 26, 2018August 24, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jacques Poulin’s Spring Tides, translated from the French by Sheila Fischman.

Categories Book Reviews, Jacques Poulin Tags 1970s, 1978, Archipelago Books, French 9 Comments

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick

May 25, 2018August 21, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at the magnificence that is Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

Categories Book Reviews, Herman Melville Tags 1850s, 1851 16 Comments

Roberto Bolaño: The Skating Rink

May 25, 2018August 18, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Roberto Bolaño’s The Skating Rink, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.

Categories Book Reviews, Chris Andrews, Roberto Bolaño Tags 1990s, 1993, New Directions, Spanish 4 Comments

J.M. Coetzee: Foe

May 26, 2018August 14, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee’s 1986 novel, Foe.

Categories Book Reviews, J.M. Coetzee Tags 1980s, 1986, Nobel Prize 11 Comments

Samuel Johnson: Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

May 25, 2018August 10, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor catches up with Samuel Johnson’s 1759 book Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.

Categories Book Reviews, Samuel Johnson Tags 1750s, 1759 11 Comments

Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn

May 25, 2018August 6, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn, recently longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

Categories Book Reviews, Colm Tóibín Tags 2000s, 2009, 2009 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 13 Comments

Yoel Hoffmann: Curriculum Vitae

May 25, 2018August 3, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Yoel Hoffmann’s Curriculum Vitae, translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole.

Categories Book Reviews, Yoel Hoffman Tags 2000s, 2007, Hebrew, New Directions 1 Comment
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