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Book Review: “Roundabout of Death” — No Safe Havens

May 13, 2021
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The strength of Roundabout of Death lies in its credibility, and in a specificity that defies detail.

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Book Review: “I Belong to Vienna” — The Merit of Not Doing the Wrong Thing

May 26, 2020
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The value and virtue of I Belong to Vienna is that it personalizes and humanizes a global reign of terror into an understandable drama.

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Book Review: “Exposed” — Between Two Incompatible Worlds

June 5, 2019
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Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.

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Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese

May 9, 2018
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Schutt’s is an example of the kind of fiction that is being taken seriously in too many quarters in this new century, but that is not nearly good enough.

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Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History

February 22, 2017
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This is the work of an extremely talented writer whose prose is spare and exact and has an authenticity that marks him as the real thing.

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Book Review: “The Last Weynfeldt” — The Virtues of a Wry, Cosmopolitan Vibe

March 15, 2016
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In this enjoyable novel, Martin Suter has chosen to sidestep depth in favor of colorful characters fine-honing their hopes and dreams..

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Fuse Book Review: The Subdued Yearning of “Guys Like Me” — The Sad-Droll Prose of Dominique Fabre

January 26, 2015
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Very little happens in Dominique Fabre’s books, yet one keeps on reading. because he so genuinely depicts the ordinary lives that most of us lead.

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Book Review: “Some Day” — A Memorable First Novel about Waiting for Love

November 16, 2013
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In “Some Day,” Shemi Zarhin has masterfully woven together a tangle of bittersweet tales and elusive dreams. it is a book that is a pleasure to read and reread.

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Book Review: In Pitigrilli’s Intoxicating “Cocaine,” Love is the Drug

October 10, 2013
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Cocaine’s bleak and brilliant satire, lush and intoxicating prose, and sadistic playfulness remain as fresh and caustic as they were nine decades ago.

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Book Review: “The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra” — A River of Consciousness

July 24, 2013
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“The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra” is a compelling celebration of art as a force of nature, a fragile yet indomitable demand for possibility despite the constraints of a torpid existence.

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