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Graywolf Press

Book Review: Claudia Rankine’s “Just Us: An American Conversation” — Tough Talk about Race

Claudia Rankine comes off like a disgruntled but interesting guest at a dinner party who keeps turning the conversation back to subjects that make others uncomfortable but are well worth talking about and seriously examining.

By: Ed Meek Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Claudia Rankine, Ed Meek, Graywolf Press, Just Us: An American Conversation

Book Review: “The Fallen” — Probing Cuban Paralysis

The Fallen artfully diagnoses the spiritual and material maladies of contemporary Cuban life through the lens of a single family, a household threatened by decay, exterior and interior.

By: Lucas Spiro Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Cuba, Graywolf Press, Lucas Spiro, The Fallen

Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust

Makine may be plagiarizing himself, which is a perfectly legitimate thing for a writer to do, but scenes of spring snow and railroad stations become clichés even in talented hands.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Review, World Books Tagged: A Woman Loved, Andreï Makine, Brief Lives That Live Forever, french fiction, Graywolf Press, translation

Book Review: “The Wake” — When England Stopped Being English

More than a mere novel, The Wake is really a medieval epic poem to an English way of life that would be erased forever.

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Graywolf Press, historical fiction, Paul Kingsnorth., The Wake, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Before I Burn” — A True Crime Story Transformed into Art

“Before I Burn” gives the reader the awesome sense of a fully perceived life—the hallmark of great art.

By: Troy Pozirekides Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Before I Burn, Graywolf Press, Norwegian, translation

Book Review: Per Petterson’s “It’s Fine By Me” — A Sensitive Tale of a Lost Boy

“It’s Fine By Me” is the story of so many lost boys in literature, who run, who rebel, who are crushed, or luckily find their way.

By: David Mehegan Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Graywolf Press, It's Fine By Me, Norwegian, Per Petterson, translation

Book Review: Steve Stern’s Fabulous “Book of Mischief”

Here is a writer whose vision and generous spirit cannot be ignored. And that Steve Stern writes a prose as fine as anyone could wish must be emphasized, as well.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Graywolf Press, Steve Stern, The Book of Mischief and Other Stories

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