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John Updike: Bech: A Book

November 3, 2017February 4, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Updike’s first collection of stories about Henry Bech, from 1970, Bech: A Book.

Categories Book Reviews, John Updike Tags 1970, 1970s, Short Story 9 Comments

Marilynne Robinson: Gilead

October 5, 2017January 31, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Marilynne Robinson’s 2004, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gilead.

Categories Book Reviews, Marilynne Robinson Tags 2000s, 2004, NBCC Award, Pulitzer Prize 28 Comments

Philip Roth: I Married a Communist

October 5, 2017January 27, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s 1998 novel, I Married a Communist.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1990s, 1998 10 Comments

Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary

October 5, 2017January 23, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor finally reads and reviews Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, translated from the French by Margaret Mauldon.

Categories Book Reviews, Flaubert Gustave Tags 1850s, 1857, French 32 Comments

Imre Kertész: The Pathseeker

October 5, 2017January 18, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész’s The Pathseeker.

Categories Book Reviews, Imre Kertész Tags 1970s, 1977, Hungarian, Nobel Prize 3 Comments

Imran Ahmad: Unimagined

October 5, 2017January 14, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Imran Ahmad’s memoir, Unimagined, and follows that up with an interview with the author.

Categories Book Reviews, Imran Ahmad Tags 2000s, 2008, Interview 28 Comments

Derek Walcott: Omeros

October 5, 2017January 11, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott’s 1990 epic poem Omeros.

Categories Book Reviews, Derek Walcott Tags 1990, 1990s, Nobel Prize, Poetry 24 Comments

Graham Greene: The End of the Affair

October 5, 2017January 7, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Graham Greene’s 1951 novel, The End of the Affair.

Categories Book Reviews, Graham Greene Tags 1950s, 1951 7 Comments

Robert Penn Warren: All the King’s Men

October 5, 2017January 3, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize winning, 1946 novel, All the King’s Men.

Categories Book Reviews, Robert Penn Warren Tags 1940s, 1946, Pulitzer Prize 19 Comments

Roberto Bolaño: 2666

September 27, 2017December 30, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Roberto Bolaño’s 2004 magnum opus, 2666, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer.

Categories Book Reviews, Roberto Bolaño Tags 2000s, 2004, NBCC Award, Spanish 31 Comments
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