by Melissa Beck | Aug 11, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: Graywolf Press Formats: Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound | iBooks[/alert] All of us deal with grief in different ways and in this short book Max Porter presents us with grief...
by michaeld | Dec 14, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Booze Bellies & Cricket Balls By Shehan Karunatilaka Graywolf Press, $16.00, 416 pages Sportswriter and cricket fanatic WG Karunasen is falling apart. Years of heavy drinking have destroyed his liver, and the end is nigh. While this impending doom...
by michaeld | Nov 2, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
Burying The Past By Carmen Bugan Graywolf Press 15.00 256 pages Just once, there needs to be a book about a happy Romanian peasant. Burying the Typewriter looks at the story of Carmen Bugan, whose family was persecuted because the father decided to do...
by Site Owner | Aug 27, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography
By Kevin Young Graywolf Press, $25.00, 483 pages Art can be distracting when it comes to talking about art. The Grey Album looks at the contributions of black culture, and the importance of those contributions when it comes to defining black culture itself. It covers...
by Site Owner | Aug 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Classics, Poetry
By Dante Alighieri, Translated by Mary Jo Bang, Drawings by Henrik Drescher Graywolf Press, $28.00, 338 pages Mary Jo Bang’s translation of Inferno is truly unique. Although the work unquestionably remains Dante Alighieri’s classic journey through Hell, the...
