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Patrick Leigh Fermor: A Time to Keep Silence

June 15, 2017March 7, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Patrick Leigh Fermor’s 1957 travel memoir, A Time to Keep Silence.

June 27, 2016December 9, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Buddhadeva Bose’s My Kind of Girl, translated from the Bengali by Arunava Sinha. Read the full post.

June 17, 2016July 2, 2010 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Brian Moore’s 1955 novel, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne. Read the full post.

May 21, 2020December 25, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Merry Christmas from The Mookse and the Gripes. Here’s a brief recommendation for Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales.

February 12, 2018May 9, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Philip Roth’s debut, a collection of short stories that went on to win the National Book Award, Goodbye, Columbus.

October 5, 2017January 7, 2009 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Graham Greene’s 1951 novel, The End of the Affair.

September 27, 2017December 1, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ralph Eillison’s National Book Award winning, 1952 novel, Invisible Man.

September 26, 2017November 19, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews John Knowles’ 1959 novel, A Separate Peace.

September 26, 2017October 19, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vladimir Nabokov’s controversial 1955 novel, Lolita.

September 25, 2017September 25, 2008 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Graham Greene’s 1955 Vietnam novel, The Quiet American.