In Love
In Love by Alfred Hayes was first published in 1953. Set in post-war New York it isn’t really about being …
Tag Archives: NYRB Classics
The Black Spider
What a good story The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf turned out to be. What’s not to like about a …
The Other
For a person like me who has a tendency to get nightmares from supernatural and gory slasher type horror, psychological …
Crisis of the European Mind
Please excuse me while I do a little happy dance over finishing The Crisis of the European Mind by Paul …
Turtle Diary
Russell Hoban was an American expat writer who lived in London from 1969 until his death in 2011. You may …
Transit
You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out …
Slow and Savory
Will the New York Review of Books Classics subscription people ever send me a fast book to read? I don’t …
Storytelling in Pitch Dark
My post yesterday about Renata Adler’s Pitch Dark is rather incomplete and kind of confusing, just like the book! Ha! …
Pitch Dark
Renata Adler’s Pitch Dark is one of those complex books that benefit from rereading. Even just going back over passages …
No Problem Here
Once again I find myself in the middle of a bunch of different books. I am moving steadily through them …
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