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Cormac McCarthy: The Road

January 11, 2018March 28, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Road.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 2000s, 2006, Pulitzer Prize 26 Comments

Philip Roth: The Human Stain

January 11, 2018March 24, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s 2000 novel The Human Stain.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 2000, 2000s 18 Comments

Henry James: The Turn of the Screw

January 11, 2018March 20, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Henry James’s masterful novella The Turn of the Screw.

Categories Book Reviews, Henry James Tags 1890s, 1898 15 Comments

George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four

January 11, 2018March 16, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor revisits George Orwell’s 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Categories Book Reviews, George Orwell Tags 1940s, 1949 30 Comments

Edith Wharton: The Age of Innocence

January 11, 2018March 12, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Edith Wharton’s 1920, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence.

Categories Book Reviews, Edith Wharton Tags 1920, 1920s, Pulitzer Prize 39 Comments

J.L. Carr: A Month in the Country

January 11, 2018March 8, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.L. Carr’s 1980 novel, A Month in the Country.

Categories Book Reviews, J.L. Carr Tags 1980, 1980 Booker Prize, 1980s, Booker Prize 21 Comments

Kevin Vennemann: Close to Jedenew

January 11, 2018March 4, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Keven Vennemann’s 2005 novella, Close to Jedenew, translated from the German by Ross Benjamin.

Categories Book Reviews, Kevin Vennemann Tags 2000s, 2005, German 7 Comments

Bernard Malamud: The Fixer

November 3, 2017February 28, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Bernard Malamud’s 1966 novel The Fixer, which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

Categories Bernard Malamud, Book Reviews Tags 1960s, 1966, National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize 11 Comments

Jayne Anne Phillips: Lark & Termite

November 3, 2017February 24, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Jayne Anne Phillips’ 2009 novel, Lark and Termite.

Categories Book Reviews, Jayne Anne Phillips Tags 2000s, 2009 13 Comments

A.A. Milne: The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh

November 3, 2017February 20, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews The Complete Tales of Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne.

Categories A.A. Milne, Book Reviews Tags 1920s, 1926, 1928, Children's Books 33 Comments
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