Review of Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer from Tony Miksanek in Journal of the American Medical Association
Rats—the small rodent kind and the large human kind—figure prominently in Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer. Hordes of rats infest this novel, and they are nearly impossible to exterminate. Georg Letham, the narrator of this sprawling story, is a 40-year-old
Review of Georg Letham: Physician and Murderer from Tahla Burki in The Lancet Infectious Diseases
His life story itself is the stuff of novels. Born in 1882 to a well-to-do Jewish family in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire—now the Czech Republic—Ernst Weiss spent his youth in some of central Europe’s most agreeable cities: Prague,
Review of Eline Vere from Ben Moser in Harper's
[A] masterpiece. . . . The Hague’s greatest writer, turn-of-the-century Louis Couperus . . . captured the city in a famous novel, Eline Vere. . . . For its roomy, chatty descriptions of life among the moneyed classes, it is
Review of My Kind of Girl from Graziano Kratli in World Literature Today
With Buddhadeva Bose’s My Kind of Girl, Archipelago Books adds a prominent Indian Bengali author to its unique catalog of “classic and contemporary world literature,” which already includes translations from twenty-five other languages. Arunava Sinha’s agile version of this short novel,
Review of Job from Jewish Book World
The Bible’s Job, “a perfect and upright man,” suffers so much that he regrets the day he was born. Platitudinous friends tell him that there must be a reason he is being punished, yet he steadfastly rejects their pious rationalizations in a dialogue that occupies most
"Briefly Noted:" a review of Stone Upon Stone, from The New Yorker
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston (Archipelago; $20). At one point in this sweeping novel of twentieth-century Poland, Szymek Pietruszka lies in a presbytery attic, recovering from three German gunshots: “The doctor just shook his
"A gate in the field:" a review of Stone Upon Stone from Benjamin Paloff in the Times Literary Supplement
A gate in the field By Benjamin Paloff Wieslaw Mysliwski Stone Upon Stone Translated by Bill Johnston In his native Poland, the distinguished career of Wiesław Myśliwski dates back to the 1960s. He is not well known in he world of English letters, however, and Stone Upon
A review of A Mind at Peace by Joshua Cohen, The Daily Beast
"The Turkish Ulysses. . . . Tanpinar’s great novel also unfolds over 24-hours, but in Istanbul on the eve of World War II. Turkey is torn between East and West just as Mümtaz, an orphan and aspiring writer of historical
Review of The Great Weaver of Kashmir from Kristján Albertsson
Finally, finally, an imposing work of fiction, which rises like a cliff from the flatness of Icelandic poetry and fiction of recent years! Iceland has gained a new master novelist, and we are certainly bound to admit that with joy.
"Briefly Noted": a review of Stone Upon Stone, from The New Yorker
Stone Upon Stone by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston (Archipelago; $20). At one point in this sweeping novel of twentieth-century Poland, Szymek Pietruszka lies in a presbytery attic, recovering from three German gunshots: "The doctor just shook his