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New Directions

A Review of The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

July 10, 2017

Elizabeth Jaeger

Translated from the German by Michael Hulse (New York, NY: New Directions, 2016) Talk of a wall and the ban regarding Muslim refugees is everywhere. Immigration has become one of the hot bed topics currently raging in America. On social … Continued

A Review of Oreo by Fran Ross

August 27, 2015

Amanda Sarasien

(New York, NY: New Directions, 2015) It may come as a surprise to many readers of Fran Ross’s Oreo, recently rereleased by New Directions, that upon the book’s first appearance in 1974, the story failed to find its audience. Oreo … Continued

Not-Quiteness in Yoel Hoffman’s Moods

June 18, 2015

H.L. Hix

Translated from the Hebrew by Peter Cole (New York, NY: New Directions, 2015) “Otherwise, it would have returned to the darkness…” At almost exactly the midpoint of Yoel Hoffman’s Moods, the first-person narrator (who throughout the book refers to himself … Continued

A Review of Adventures in Immediate Irreality by Max Blecher

February 19, 2015

Cory Johnston

Translated from the Romanian by Michael Henry Heim (New York, NY: New Directions, 2015) The narrator of Max Blecher’s semi-autobiographical novel, Adventures in Immediate Irreality, is a tree. Understandably, he is desperate for his love interest, Edda, to understand. It … Continued

A Review of The Sinistra Zone by Ádám Bodor

January 19, 2014

Cory Johnston

Translated from the Hungarian by Paul Olchvary (New York, NY: New Directions, 2013) Every summer, my family and I embark on a week-long vacation to rural New Hampshire. There is a small “old world” style resort there, replete with century … Continued

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