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Compensation for Having Had to Live (Ending Up by Kingsley Amis)
A recently reissued Kingsley Amis novel is full of "England stuff": Octogenarians, manners, oxford commas, and acerb.
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Perhaps You’ve Been a Soldier, Too? (The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys,...
What kind of man would Napoleon have been forced to become had he escaped St. Helena and set off on a quest to regain his empire?
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The American Uncanny (American Innovations: Stories by Rivka Galchen)
Rivka Galchen’s uncanny collection of stories contains several contemporary, feminist riffs on classic short stories, including Gogol's "The Nose" and Thurber's "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty."
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So Fearsome a Blue; or, From Grandmother’s House We Go (Rock Crystal by...
In Adalbert Stifter's Rock Crystal, the forest, the mountains, the snow and, most importantly, the ice—the beautiful, terrible, infinite ice!—inspire a breathless, speechless wonder.
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I’ll Come Back Once You’re Dead (Henri Duchemin and His Shadows by Emmanual...
Emmanuel Bove’s brooding 1928 story collection is populated by vulnerable, desperate, lonely men.
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A Prison Wherever He Turned (Stoner by John Williams)
The plot of John Williams’ 1965 novel, Stoner (NYRB Classics, 2006): Young man becomes assistant professor at University of Missouri, lives unhappy life, has undistinguished career, dies. You can...
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