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Richard Stern: Other Men’s Daughters

August 31, 2017

Trevor looks at Richard Stern’s Other Men’s Daughters, a complicated and often frustrating look at late 1960s New England from a decidedly 1970s perspective.

Patrick Modiano: Such Fine Boys

August 30, 2017

Trevor reviews Patrick Modiano’s Such Fine Boys, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti, and published this week by Yale University Press.

Patrick Modiano: Sundays in August

August 29, 2017

Trevor reviews his new favorite Patrick Modiano book: Sundays in August, translated from the French by Damion Searls.

Miranda July: “The Metal Bowl”

August 28, 2017

This week’s New Yorker fiction is Miranda July’s “The Metal Bowl.”

Mohsin Hamid: Exit West

August 25, 2017

Paul reviews Mohsin Hamid’s Man Booker Prize Longlisted Exit West, a book he’d love to see on the shortlist and wouldn’t mind seeing take the prize.

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