Richard Stern: Other Men’s Daughters
Trevor looks at Richard Stern's Other Men's Daughters, a complicated and often frustrating look at late 1960s New England from a decidedly 1970s perspective.
Arthur Schnitzler: Late Fame
Sitting unpublished for over 100 years, Arthur Schnitzler's Late Fame is a welcome exploration of the doors that shut as time passes onward. Published by NYRB Classics this week, Trevor highly recommends it in this review.
Henry Green: Living
Trevor reviews Henry Greens second novel, 1929's Living, a supreme novel of high British modernism.
Leonora Carrington: Down Below
Trevor reviews Leonora Carrington's account of her mental breakdown and institutionalization in Spain during World War II, Down Below.
Henry Green: Blindness
Trevor reviews Henry Green's debut novel, Blindness. Read the full post.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: The Return of Munchausen
Trevor reviews Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's The Return of Munchausen, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull.
Robert Walser: Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories
Trevor reviews NYRB Classics' latest volume of Robert Walser's brief musings, Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories, translated from the German by Tom Whalen, with Nicole Köngeter and Annette Wiesner. Read the full post.
Patrick Modiano: In the Café of Lost Youth
Trevor reviews Patrick Modiano's 2007 novel, In the Café of Lost Youth, translated from the French by Chris Clarke and published this week in a new edition by NYRB Classics.
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.
Ronald Blythe: Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village
Trevor reviews Ronald Blythe's 1969 book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village.