Raúl Zurita's INRI is a powerful volume of poetry that makes the sea, mountains, rivers, deserts, and fields of Chile a tomb for the disappeared of Pinochet's reign. The sky is the tombstone. It's a stunning book, coming to us now in a translation from the Spanish by William Rowe.
Trevor reviews László Krasznahorkai's The Last Wolf, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes, and Herman: The Game Warden & The Death of a Craft, translated from the Hungarian by John Batki, recently published by New Direction in a lovely double-sided volume.
Lee reviews William Trevor's 2009 novel, Love and Summer, which "can't, of course, end well," but that is "brilliant, devastating, and masterfully wrought."
Trevor reviews Kenzaburo Oe's Death by Water, translated from the Japanese by Deborah Boliver Boehm. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Kim Thúy's Ru, translated from the French by Sheila Fischman. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews J.M. Coetzee's Summertime. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Jacques Chessex's A Jew Must Die, translated from the French by W. Donald Wilson. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Eric Siblin's look into Bach's music The Cello Suites. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Johanna Skibsrud's The Sentimentalists. Read the full post.
Trevor reviews Cordelia Strube's Lemon. Read the full post.
