Fiction chronicle May 2022
Unimaginable, imagined, imaginary
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On Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Civilizations by Laurent Binet & It’s Getting Dark by Peter Stamm.
On Pollak’s Arm by Hans von Trotha, Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan, Civilizations by Laurent Binet & It’s Getting Dark by Peter Stamm.
On the British spy novelist.
On “The Invisible Land,” by Hubert Mingarelli, “Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart: A Novel,” by Irmgard Keun, “Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing,” by Guido Morselli & “Mr Cadmus,” by Peter Ackroyd.
On some midcentury bestsellers.
On Raphael, Anton Chekhov, The Burlington Magazine & more from the world of culture.
On Interior, by Thomas Clerc; The Sweet Indifference of the World, by Peter Stamm; the short-story collection Machines in the Head, by Anna Kavan; and Beyond the Sea, by Paul Lynch.
On the career of the largely forgotten novelist.
On the overlooked works of Hugo Charteris.