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Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Kongeter, and Annette Wiesner

Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories by Robert Walser, translated by Tom Whalen, Nicole Kongeter, and Annette Wiesner

by Kenyon Ellefson | Sep 23, 2016 | Anthologies, Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: NYRB Classics Formats: Paperback, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Girlfriends, Ghosts, and Other Stories consists of scores of delightful and lyrical vignettes (or sketches, as...
Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen

Zama by Antonio Di Benedetto, translated by Esther Allen

by Kenyon Ellefson | Aug 15, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, General Fiction

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: NYRB Classics Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] What I despise most of all from a book is inaction. Something must happen. The protagonist must change in some way....
The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton

by Kenyon Ellefson | Jul 22, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: NYRB Classics Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] He is the “the man with the TV eyes” and he has come to watch her die. In his pain-starved culture,...

The Glory of the Empire: A Novel, a History by Jean D’Ormesson

by Kenyon Ellefson | Apr 28, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Science Fiction

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: New York Review Books Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] There are those few, extraordinary books that make me want to go back and alter all the reviews that I have...

Paris Vagabond by Jean-Paul Clébert, Photographs by Patrice Molinard, Translated from the French by Donal Nicholson-Smith, Foreword by Luc Sante

by Kenyon Ellefson | Apr 18, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction

[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: New York Review Books Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] Readers often turn to fiction in order to glimpse at other modes of living, but this need not...
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