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Antonio Di Benedetto: The Silentiary

January 26, 2022 by Trevor Berrett

This week NYRB Classics is publishing Antonio Di Benedetto’s 1964 novel, The Silentiary, translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen. This is a fantastic follow-up to Di Benedetto’s masterpiece, Zama.

Categories Antonio di Benedetto Tags 1960s, 1964, NYRB Classics, Spanish Leave a comment

Alfred Hayes: The End of Me

June 17, 2020 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor looks at Alfred Hayes’s 1968 novel The End of Me, recently released by NYRB Classics.

Categories Alfred Hayes, Book Reviews Tags 1960s, 1968, NYRB Classics 3 Comments

Ross Macdonald: Black Money

August 3, 2017July 11, 2017 by Trevor Berrett

This week, The Library of America is publishing its third and final collection of Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer novels, which includes Black Money, The Instant Enemy, The Goodbye Look, and The Underground Man. Here, Trevor takes a look at Black Money.

Categories Book Reviews, Ross Macdonald Tags 1960s, 1966, The Library of America 4 Comments

Ronald Blythe: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village

June 15, 2017October 9, 2015 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ronald Blythe’s 1969 book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village.

Categories Book Reviews, Ronald Blythe Tags 1960s, 1969, NYRB Classics 4 Comments

Vasily Grossman: An Armenian Sketchbook

June 15, 2017February 19, 2013 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Vasily Grossman’s posthumously published travel memoir, An Armenian Sketchbook, translated from the Russian by Robert & Elizabeth Chandler.

Categories Vasily Grossman Tags 1960s, 1967, NYRB Classics, Russian 4 Comments

Juan José Saer: Scars

July 12, 2016March 12, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Juan José Saer’s Scars, translated from the Spanish by Steve Dolph. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, José Saer Juan Tags 1960s, 1969, Open Letter Books, Spanish 5 Comments

Milton Rokeach: The Three Christs of Ypsilanti

July 11, 2016January 25, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Milton Rokeach’s 1964 psychological case study, The Three Christs of Ypsilanti. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Milton Rokeach Tags 1960s, 1964, NYRB Classics 5 Comments

J.A. Baker: The Peregrine

June 27, 2016March 3, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews J.A. Baker’s strange 1967 book, The Peregrine. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, J.A. Baker Tags 1960s, 1967, NYRB Classics 10 Comments

Cormac McCarthy: The Orchard Keeper

June 27, 2016February 7, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Cormac McCarthy’s debut, The Orchard Keeper. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Cormac McCarthy Tags 1960s, 1965 19 Comments

Heinrich Böll: The Clown

June 27, 2016January 22, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Heinrich Böll’s The Clown. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Heinrich Böll Tags 1960s, 1963, German, Nobel Prize 7 Comments
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