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New Vessel Press

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

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

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Faysal Khartash, New Vessel Press, Rounabout of Death

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

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

By: Thomas Filbin Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Alta L. Price, Anna Goldenberg, I Belong to Vienna, New Vessel Press, Thomas Filbin

Book Review: “Exposed” — Between Two Incompatible Worlds

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

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Exposed, Jean-Philppe Blondel, New Vessel Press

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

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Anna Maria Ortese, Christine Schutt, Neapolitan Chronicles, New Vessel Press, Pure Hollywood, short stories

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

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.

By: Roberta Silman Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Antonina W. Bouis, New Vessel Press, Sergei Lebedev, Soviet Russia, The Year of the Comet

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

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

By: Kai Maristed Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction-in-translation, German fiction, Kai Maristed, Martin Suter, New Vessel Press, Steph Morris

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

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.

By: John Taylor Filed Under: Books, Featured, World Books Tagged: Dominique Fabre, French literature, Guys Like Me, Howard Curtis, New Vessel Press, translation

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

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.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: fiction, Israel, New Vessel Press, Shemi Zarhin, Some Day, translation

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

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

By: Peter Keough Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, World Books Tagged: Cocaine, New Vessel Press, Pitigrilli

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

“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.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Fuse News, World Books Tagged: New Vessel Press, Nick Caistor, Pedro Mairal, The Missing Year of Juan Salvatierra, translation

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