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Wolfgang Hilbig: The Tidings of the Trees

September 6, 2018

Paul reviews Wolfgang Hilbig’s 1996 novel, The Tidings of the Trees, translated from the Germany by Isabel Fargo Cole.

Pat Barker: The Silence of the Girls

September 5, 2018

Trevor reviews Pat Barker’s war novel, The Silence of the Girls, a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Achilles’s captive Briseis.

September 2018 Books to Read

September 4, 2018

While every month is a reading month, I’d argue that September is the reading month. And here we are! Check out some of the books I’m excited by that are coming this month!

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh: “Audition”

September 3, 2018

This week’s New Yorker story is Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s “Audition.”

William Trevor: “The Unknown Girl”

August 31, 2018

William Trevor’s “The Unknown Girl,” from Last Stories, is a devastating look at a life that didn’t seem worth living.

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