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Latest Review: Georges Simenon

Our latest review is of Simenon’s Red Lights.

Simenon in the Philadelphia Inquirer

Frank Wilson’s review of Simenon’s The Engagement is pretty much just a plot summary, but it does point to the aspect of the book that I found most intriguing: Human beings, as portrayed in this novel, range narrowly from the merely ordinary and banal to the mean-spirited, bitter, and grasping. What makes it ...

Review of Simenon's The Engagement

Our latest review is of Georges Simenon’s The Engagement, translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis. This book will be the featured book in the September Words Without Borders/Reading the World Book Club. I will help moderate this discussion along with Mark Binelli, the author of the amazing Sacco and Vanzetti ...