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Alexandra Kleeman: “Choking Victim”

April 25, 2016

This week’s New Yorker story is Alexandra Kleeman’s “Choking Victim.” Read the full post.

Muriel Spark: Aiding and Abetting

April 22, 2016

Trevor reviews Muriel Spark’s penultimate novel, 2000’s Aiding and Abetting. Read the full post

Orhan Pamuk: A Strangeness in My Mind

April 21, 2016

Lee reviews Orhan Pamuk’s A Strangeness of My Mind, recently shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize.

Ross Macdonald: The Zebra-Striped Hearse

April 20, 2016

This week, The Library of America has released their second volume of Ross Macdonald books: Three Novels of the Early 1960s. The first in the volume is The Zebra-Striped Hearse, featuring Macdonald’s empathetic PI Lew Archer. Trevor reviews that book and looks forward to these LOA volumes. Read the full post.

Blutch: Peplum

April 19, 2016

Today, the new imprint New York Review Comics, is publishing Edward Gauvin’s translation of Blutch’s 1996 graphic novel Peplum, a strange venture into the mystical brutality of ancient Rome. Read the full post.

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