Pamela Frankau: A Wreath for the Enemy
Pamela Frankau’s 1954 novel, A Wreath for the Enemy, is a wonderfully circular act of atonement through literature.
1950s
Antonio di Benedetto: Zama
Trevor reviews Antonio di Benedetto’s Zama, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. Read the full post.
Elliott Chaze: Black Wings Has My Angel
Trevor reviews Elliott Chaze’s dark noir, Black Wings Has My Angel, first published in 1953 and released this week in a new NYRB Classics edition.
Barbara Comyns: Our Spoon Came from Woolworths
Trevor reviews Barbara Comyns’s 1950 novel Our Spoons Came from Woolworths, recently published in a new edition by NYRB Classics.
Sybille Bedford: A Legacy
Lori reviews Sybille Bedford’s debut novel, A Legacy, first published in 1956 and reissued today by NYRB Classics.
Barbara Comyns: Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
For her first post on The Mookse and the Gripes, Amanda Sarasien reviews Barbara Comyns’ Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead.
Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth: The Space Merchants
Trevor reviews Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth’s classic science fiction novel The Space Merchants, just published as part of The Library of America’s American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s. Read the full post.
Robert Walser: Berlin Stories
Trevor reviews Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.
Victor Serge: Memoirs of a Revolutionary
Trevor reviews Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary, translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick, with George Paizis. Read the full post.
Flannery O’Connor: “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”
Trevor reviews Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”