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Ramón del Valle-Inclán: Tyrant Banderas

July 20, 2016August 8, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Ramón del Valle-Inclán’s 1926 novel, Tyrant Banderas, translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Read the full post.

Categories Ramón del Valle-Inclán Tags 1920s, 1926, NYRB Classics, Spanish 2 Comments

Raymond Kennedy: Ride a Cockhorse

July 18, 2016June 29, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Raymond Kennedy’s 1991 novel, Ride a Cockhorse. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Raymond Kennedy Tags 1990s, 1991, NYRB Classics 4 Comments

Stefan Zweig: Confusion

July 14, 2016May 24, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Stefan Zweig’s 1927 novella, Confusion, translated from the Germany by Anthea Bell. Read the full post.

Categories Stefan Zweig Tags 1920s, 1927, German, NYRB Classics 6 Comments

Robert Walser: Berlin Stories

June 15, 2017May 15, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Robert Walser’s Berlin Stories, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky.

Categories Book Reviews, Robert Walser Tags 1950s, 1956, German, NYRB Classics 11 Comments

Victor Serge: Memoirs of a Revolutionary

July 14, 2016May 3, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Victor Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary, translated from the French by Peter Sedgwick, with George Paizis. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Victor Serge Tags 1950s, 1951, French, NYRB Classics 4 Comments

Jean Strouse: Alice James: A Biography

June 15, 2017February 24, 2012 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews jean Strouse’s 1980 biography of Alice James.

Categories Book Reviews, Jean Strouse Tags 1980, 1980s, NYRB Classics 1 Comment

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

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: The Letter Killers Club

February 22, 2018December 19, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s strange novel, The Letter Killers Club, translated from the Russian by Joanne Turnbull.

Categories Book Reviews, Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky Tags 1920s, 1926, NYRB Classics, Russian 7 Comments

Gyula Krúdy: The Adventures of Sindbad

July 11, 2016November 30, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Gyula Krúdy’s The Adventures of Sindbad, translated from the Hungarian by George Szirtes. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Gyula Krúdy Tags 1940s, 1944, Hungarian, NYRB Classics 7 Comments

Tove Jansson: The True Deceiver

June 29, 2016May 19, 2011 by Trevor Berrett

Trevor reviews Tove Jansson’s 1982 novel, The True Deceiver. Read the full post.

Categories Book Reviews, Jansson Tove Tags 1980s, 1982, NYRB Classics, Swedish 7 Comments
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