News & Reviews of Our Books and Authors

• The Los Angeles Times reviews Zift, calling it "a compelling thriller." [link]. Also see "That Tar-Black Taste: An Interview with Vladislav Todorov" at Fiction Writers Review.


• James Mustich, Editor-in-Cheif of the Barnes & Noble Review, on Ill Met By Moonlight: "W. Stanley Moss's true story of one of the Second World War's most daring adventures unfolds on the island of Crete, where British commandos and Greek resistance fighters kidnap Nazi General Heinrich Kreipe and spirit him away to British-occupled Egypt. Added to the thrill of the caper itself is the reader's delight in realizing that standing tall among its ingenious heroes is one of the best English prose writers of modern times, Patrick Leigh Fermor." [link]


• Jessa Crispin discusses Zift on PBS's Need to Know: "The communist takeover of Eastern Europe happened so quickly, and was so devastating, that it's no wonder I keep pulling these books off the shelf during times of political uncertainty. In Zift, a man nicknamed 'Moth' is released from prison after serving a 20-year sentence and finds his country of Bulgaria, now a communist state, completely unrecognizable. The book follows him through one night of terror and mayhem, where everything, even friends and family, are unrecognizable. Todorov was obviously raised on a steady diet of American noir, and it shows in the pacing, the language, and the shadowy depths of every alleyway, every street corner. It's not just the witty 'Moth,' but the city of Sofia, that, despite 20 years of oppression, endures." [link]


• In her review at She Treads Softly, Lori says Strange Relation is "a memoir for those of you who love literature and poetry and know it can sustain you through personal trials," and rates it "very highly recommended." [read the full review]


• "I found these objects in a rubbish heap in the south of France. The result looks like a painting by Cézanne." —photographer and author of Flotsam, John Stewart, on his "best shot" in The Guardian.


• Robert Alter reviews The Tables of the Law in the London Review of Books: "Thomas Mann wrote this engaging novella in a few weeks in 1943. (The new translation by Marion Faber and Stephen Lehmann, which is brisk and direct, is a welcome replacement of the fussier and less accurate English version done by Helen Lowe-Porter for the original publication.) . . . What is especially noteworthy about The Tables of the Law among Mann's fictions is its playfulness." (read the full review [pdf])


• Zinsser on Friday (at The American Scholar): E-maledictions.


• Science blog io9 selected The Six-Cornered Snowflake for its list of "10 Amazing Science Books That Reveal The Wonders Of The Universe" [link]


• The Wall Street Journal calls The Flight of Ikaros "not only one of the greatest [books] we have about postwar Greece—memorializing a village culture that has almost vanished—but also one of the most moving accounts I have ever read of people caught up in political turmoil. (It is richer than George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia because Andrews spent more time getting to know the people he wrote about.)" (read the full review)

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