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Annie Dillard: An American Childhood

September 25, 2017September 21, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Annie Dillard’s memoir, An American Childhood.

Categories Annie Dillard, Book Reviews Tags 1980s, 1987 7 Comments

Philip Roth: Indignation

September 25, 2017September 18, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s 2008 novel, Indignation.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 2000s, 2008 17 Comments

Richard Hughes: In Hazard

September 25, 2017September 15, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Richard Hughes’ 1938 hurricane book, In Hazard.

Categories Book Reviews, Richard Hughes Tags 1930s, 1938, NYRB Classics 3 Comments

Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried

September 25, 2017September 11, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tim O’Brien’s short story collection/Vietnam War memoir The Things They Carried.

Categories Book Reviews, Tim O'Brien Tags 1990, 1990s, Short Story 16 Comments

Philip Roth: American Pastoral

September 25, 2017September 7, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel American Pastoral.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Roth Tags 1990s, 1997, Pulitzer Prize 45 Comments

Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency

September 25, 2017September 4, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor fails to finish Philip Hensher’s Booker longlisted novel The Northern Clemency, but he writes a few thoughts anyway.

Categories Book Reviews, Philip Hensher Tags 2000s, 2008, 2008 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 23 Comments

Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies

September 25, 2017September 1, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Amitav Ghosh’s Booker Prize longlisted novel Sea of Poppies.

Categories Amitav Ghosh, Book Reviews Tags 2000s, 2008, 2008 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 10 Comments

John Berger: From A to X

September 24, 2017August 29, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Berger’s Booker Prize longlisted novel, From A to X.

Categories Book Reviews, John Berger Tags 2000s, 2008, 2008 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 23 Comments

Leonardo Sciascia: The Day of the Owl

September 24, 2017August 26, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor takes a welcome break from his Booker Prize reading and reviews Leonardo Sciascia’s The Day of the Owl, translated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver.

Categories Book Reviews, Leonard Sciascia Tags 1960s, 1961, Italian, NYRB Classics 13 Comments

Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs

September 24, 2017August 23, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Linda Grant’s Booker Prize longlisted novel, The Clothes on Their Backs.

Categories Book Reviews, Linda Grant Tags 2000s, 2008, 2008 Booker Prize, Booker Prize 15 Comments
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