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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2023 =
at
the complete review
This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2023, by month and in reverse chronological order.Key:
* Note that very many publishers with a focus on fiction in translation regularly send all relevant titles, and so these are not explicitly 'requested' (though we would ask for them if we didn't get them automatically); these are marked "un+" |
Books received/acquired in December, 2023
[30 books/ 15 reviewed to date]
- Boryslav in Flames, by Ivan Franko (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Philosophical Orations (II), by Maximus of Tyre (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Lineage of the Raghus, by Kalidasa (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Lost Steps, by Alejo Carpentier (Penguin Classics) [requested]
- Explosion in a Cathedral, by Alejo Carpentier (Penguin Classics) [requested]
- Traces of Enayat, by Iman Mersal (Transit Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Novices of Lerna, by Ángel Bonomini (Transit Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux (Mariner Books) [ARC; requested]
- The Book Censor's Library, by Bothayna Al-Essa (Restless Books) [ARC; solicited]
- The Homeless, by Stefan Żeromski (Paul Dry Books) [ARC; solicited]
- Counterweight, by Djuna (Pantheon) [library]
- Trojan Women · Iphigenia among the Taurians · Ion, by Euripides (Harvard University Press) [$8.66]
- It, by Stephen King (Signet) [$4.36]
- Three Novels, by Isabel Colegate (Penguin Books) [$3.87]
- Wicked Weeds, by Pedro Cabiya (Mandel Vilar Press) [$3.99]
- The Necessary Angel, by C.K.Stead (Allen & Unwin) [$5.16]
- Indeterminate Inflorescence, by Lee Seong-bok (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- The Gold Seekers, by Augusto Monterroso (Sublunary Editions) [requested]
- The Ballad of John Clare, by Hugh Lupton (Dedalus) [un+]
- Museum Visits, by Éric Chevillard (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Slow Down, by Saitō Kōhei (Astra House) [solicited]
- Apocalypse Television, by David Craig (Applause) [solicited]
- The Quality of Mercy, by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press) [solicited]
- Ndima Ndima, by Tsitsi Mapepa (Catalyst Press) [solicited]
- Your Absence Is Darkness, by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
- Shubeik Lubeik, by Deena Mohamed (Pantheon) [library]
- Philosophical Orations (I), by Maximus of Tyre (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Placita, by Aëtius (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Kannada Mahabharata (I), by Kumaravyasa (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Lublin, by Manya Wilkinson (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2023
[35 books/ 11 reviewed to date]
- Skeletons in the Closet, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Boys Alive, by Pier Paolo Pasolini (New York Review Books) [un+]
- An Ordinary Youth, by Walter Kempowski (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Chevengur, by Andrey Platonov (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Fire Within, by (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Thirst, by Marina Yuszczuk (Dutton) [ARC; catalogue]
- Ghost Pains, by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (And Other Stories) [ARC; un]
- The Hebrew Teacher, by Maya Arad (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Wafers, by Ha Seong-nan (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Point Zero, by Matsumoto Seicho (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Newton's Brain, by Jakub Arbes (Jantar Publishing) [solicited]
- The Science of the Stars, by Gustáv Reuss (Jantar Publishing) [solicited]
- Pale Shadows, by Dominique Fortier (Coach House Books) [ARC; solicited]
- Ein Mensch wechselt seine Haut, by Bruno Jasieński (bahoe books) [€15.00]
- Die Reise des gelehrten Doktor Leonardo und seiner zukünftigen Geliebten, der schönen Alceste, in die Slobidische Schweiz, by Mike Johansen (Secession Verlag) [€9.00]
- Der Preis unserer Freiheit, by Juri Andruchowytsch (Suhrkamp) [requested]
- Ditte Menschenkind, by Martin Andersen Nexø (Reclam) [€2.00]
- Verpfändetes Leben, by Vicki Baum (Buchgemeinschafts-Ausgabe) [€1.50]
- Gurret-ül-Eyn, by Marie von Najmájer (Nationaler Geistiger Rat der Bahá'í) [€4.00]
- Im Hause des Kommerzienrates, by Eugenie Marlitt (Heyne) [€.50]
- Lockvogel, by Theresa Prammer (Haymon) [€1.50]
- Farben der Nacht, by Davit Gabunia (Rowohlt) [€6.99]
- De rerum natura / Welt aus Atomen, by Lukrez (Reclam) [€18.30]
- Die Ballade des letzten Gastes, by Peter Handke (Suhrkamp) [requested]
- »Das letzte Wort hat der Minister«, by ed. E.Faber and C.Wurm (Aufbau) [€5.50]
- Der Kasuar, by Matthias Mander (Ullstein) [€2.50]
- Amore, by Giorgio Manganelli (Verlag Klaus Wagenbach) [€6.00]
- Die Künstliche Mutter, by Hermann Burger (S. Fischer Verlag) [€7.00]
- Lichtspiel, by Daniel Kehlmann (Rowohlt) [requested]
- Weiningers Nacht, by Joshua Sobol [Paulus Manker] [€6.00]
- wohin die verschwunden ist, um die es ohnehin nicht geht, by Stefan Schmitzer (Droschl) [€4.00]
- Die Tigerin, by Walter Serner (dtv) [€3.00]
- Fürstinnen, by Eduard von Keyserling (Manesse) [€12.00]
- Bot, by Clemens J. Setz (Suhrkamp) [€12.00]
- Pekinger Passion, by Jürg Amann (Arche) [€1.00]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2023
[38 books/ 12 reviewed to date]
- Tom's Version, by Robert Irwin (Dedalus Books) [un+]
- The Secret Hours, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [requested]
- About Ed, by Robert Glück (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle, by Philippe Soupault (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West, by Li Zhichang (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- Master Incapable (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute, by Pu Songling (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- The Misadventures of Master Mugwort, by Su Shi, Lu Cai, and Tu Benjun (Oxford University Press ) [requested]
- Kingdoms in Peril (4 vols.), by Feng Menglong (University of California Press) [requested]
- My Death, by Lisa Tuttle (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Our Philosopher, by Gert Hofmann (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Lies and Sorcery, by Elsa Morante (New York Review Books) [requested]
- The Limit, by Rosalind Belben (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Don't Look At Me Like That, by Diana Athill (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Instead of a Letter, by Diana Athill (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Loved and Missed, by Susie Boyt (New York Review Books) [requested]
- One Thousand & One, by Kari Hukkila (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- The Body of the Soul, by Ludmila Ulitskaya (Yale University Press) [un+]
- This is Amiko, Do You Copy ?, by Imamura Natsuko (Pushkin Press) [catalogue]
- Kafka, by Nishioka Kyodai (Pushkin Press) [catalogue]
- The Dialectic is in the Sea, by Beatriz Nascimento (Princeton University Press) [un]
- Invidicum, by Michael Brodsky (Tough Poets Press) [requested]
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Liveright) [catalogue]
- Forgottenness, by Tanja Maljartschuk (Liveright) [solicited]
- The Pole, by J.M.Coetzee (Liveright) [catalogue]
- Big Fiction, by Dan Sinykin (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son, by Camilo José Cela (Cornell University Press) [$3.00]
- An Insular Possession, by Timothy Mo (Paddleless) [$3.00]
- Exit Ghost, by Philip Roth (Vintage) [$3.00]
- Levels of Life, by Julian Barnes (Alfred A. Knopf) [$4.00]
- An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser (Library of America) [$4.00]
- The Moralized Ovid, by Pierre Bersuire (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Edo's Souls, by Stella Gaitano (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Riven Heart of Moscow, by Mikhail Osorgin (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Big Fellow, by Anastasiia Marsiz (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Wolves of Eternity, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press) [requested]
- The House of Doors, by Tan Twan Eng (Bloomsbury) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2023
[19 books/ 5 reviewed to date]
- William's Wife, by Gertrude Trevelyan (Boiler House Press) [solicited]
- Two Thousand Million Man-Power, by Gertrude Trevelyan (Boiler House Press) [solicited]
- Praiseworthy, by Alexis Wright (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- This Plague of Soul, by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- Come Closer, by Sara Gran (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Siren's Lament, by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
- Jabberwock, by Dara Kavanagh (Dedalus) [un+]
- A Mind of Winter, by Eoghan Smith (Dedalus) [un+]
- The End of the Moment We Had, by Okada Toshiki (Pushkin Press) [$4.02]
- A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement, by Anthony Powell (University of Chicago Press) [$3.93]
- A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement, by Anthony Powell (University of Chicago Press) [$4.43]
- Les aérostats, by Amélie Nothomb (Albin Michel) [$5.99]
- Dogra Magra, by Yumeno Kyûsaku (Philippe Picquier) [$9.65]
- One Shot, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.99]
- Bad Luck and Trouble, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.99]
- The Hunger of Women, by Marosia Castaldi (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- How Fire Descends, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [un+]
- A Myriad of Tongues, by Caleb Everett (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Night House, by Jo Nesbø (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2023
[25 books/ 10 reviewed to date]
- My Weil, by Lars Iyer (Melville House) [requested]
- A Guess at the Riddle, by David Z Albert (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Cthulhu Helix, by Umehara Katsufumi (Kurodahan Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan, by John Dougill (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; un]
- Marianna Sirca, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
- Un Amor, by Sara Mesa (open Letter) [un+]
- Natural Causes, by Nina Lykke (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Red Handler, by Johan Harstad (open Letter) [un+]
- Godzilla and Godzilla Raids Again, by Kayama Shigeru (University of Minnesota Press) [catalogue]
- Beyond the Door of No Return, by David Diop (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- A Dictator Calls, by Ismail Kadare (Counterpoint) [ARC; requested]
- The Premonition, by Yoshimoto Banana (Counterpoint) [ARC; requested]
- The Forest Brims Over, by Ayase Maru (Counterpoint) [requested]
- Dead Men Cast No Shadows, by Sergio Ramírez (McPherson & Company) [requested]
- The Golden Pot, by E.T.A. Hoffman (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Biographical and Autobiographical Writings, by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Nails and Eyes, by Fujino Kaori (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
- Nipponia Nippon, by Abe Kazushige (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
- Closing Melodies, by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Modern Buildings in London, by Ian Nairn (Notting Hill Editions) [un]
- Swastika Night, by Katharine Burdekin (The Feminist Press) [$4.67]
- A Fairly Honourable Defeat, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin Books) [$4.56]
- Plato's Republic, by Alain Badiou (Columbia University Press) [$6.08]
- The Masterpiece, by Émile Zola (Oxford World's Classics) [$5.16]
- Tali Girls, by Siamak Herawi (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2023
[25 books / 5 reviewed to date]
- The Heron Catchers, by David Joiner (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Girls, by John Bowen (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- Twice Lost, by Phyllis Paul (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- They, by Kay Dick (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- The Goodby People, by Gavin Lambert (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- The Murderer, by Roy Heath (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- The Feast, by Margaret Kennedy (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- Troy Chimneys, by Margaret Kennedy (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- The Nenoquich, by Henry Bean (McNally Editions) [catalogue]
- The New Animals, by Pip Adam (Dorothy Project ) [ARC; solicited]
- The Long Form, by Kate Briggs (Dorothy Project ) [ARC; solicited]
- The Guest Lecture, by Martin Riker (Black Cat) [requested]
- Her Side of the Story, by Alba de Céspedes (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
- Lobster, by Guillaume Lecasble (Dedalus) [un+]
- My Father's House, by Karmele Jaio (Dedalus) [un+]
- Standing Heavy, by GauZ' (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
- The Future, by Catherine Leroux (Biblioasis) [un+]
- Exiled Shadow, by Norman Manea (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- The Sixteen Satires, by Juvenal (Penguin Classics) [$1.00]
- Red Dragon, by Thomas Harris (Dell) [$1.00]
- The Tea Lords, by Hella S. Haasse (Portobello) [$1.00]
- Twilight at Mac's Place, by Ross Thomas (Thomas Dunne Books) [$1.00]
- Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$3.00]
- The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink (1), by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Short Stories of Gustav Meyrink (2), by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2023
[24 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- New Millennium Boyz, by Alex Kazemi (Permuted Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Information Desk, by Robyn Schiff (Penguin Poets) [ARC; solicited]
- Sunset, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Press) [un+]
- Finger Bone, by Takahashi Hiroki (Honford Star) [un+]
- The Specters of Algeria, by Hwang Yeo Jung (Honford Star) [requested]
- The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought, by Wang Hui (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- A Shining, by Jon Fosse (Transit Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- Sunrise, by Kobayashi Erika (Astra House) [catalogue]
- Lend Me Your Character, by Dubravka Ugrešić (Open Letter) [un+]
- Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, by Rachel Cantor (Soho Press) [un]
- The Goth House Experiment, by SJ Sindu (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- The Country of Toó, by Rodrigo Rey Rosa (Biblioasis) [solicited]
- Through Three Rooms, by Sven Elvestad (Kabaty Press) [solicited]
- small pieces, by Micheline Aharonian Marcom and Fowzia Karimi (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- The Most Secret Memory of Men, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
- The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
- Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company, by Eric Lane (Dedalus) [un+]
- Ariane, A Russian Girl, by Claude Anet (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Orations. Other Fragments, by Cato (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Lives of the Sophists, by Philostratus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Mrs. S, by K. Patrick (Europa Editions) [solicited]
- Allah's Spacious Earth, by Omar Sayfo (Syracuse University Press) [catalogue]
- The City of the Living, by Nicola Lagioia (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Pet, by Catherine Chidgey (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The City of Unspeakable Fear, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2023
[22 books / 12 reviewed to date]
- Dragon Palace, by Kawakami Hiromi (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Bournville, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Bridesman, by Savyon Liebrecht (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Encyclopedia, by Richard Horn (Tough Poets Press) [requested]
- Biography of X, by Catherine Lacey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [library]
- Second Best, by David Foenkinos (Gallic Books) [ARC; un+]
- Kids Run the Show, by Delphine de Vigan (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Do You Remember Being Born ?, by Sean Michaels (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
- Honoré de Balzac, by Peter Brooks (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
- Marcel Proust, by Michael Wood (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
- Sir Thomas Browne, by Gavin Francis (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
- The Trio, by Johanna Hedman (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Bad Kids, by Chen Zijin (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
- Mater 2-10, by Hwang Sok-yong (Scribe) [solicited]
- The Devil's Flute Murders, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [solicited]
- Beethoven's Assassins, by Andrew Crumey (Dedalus) [un+]
- Great Liberty, by Julien Gracq (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Tomás Nevinson, by Javier Marías (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- The Creativity of the Crisis, by Évelyne Grossman (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- The Child and the River, by Henri Bosco (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Dalkey Days, by Steven Moore (Zerogram Press) [requested]
- Sour Grapes, by Zakaria Tamer (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; requested]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2023
[39 books / 6 reviewed to date]
- What I'd Rather Not Think About, by Jente Posthuma (Scribe) [solicited]
- Take Six: Six Balkan Women Writers, ed. by Will Firth (Dedalus) [un+]
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Yagisawa Satoshi (Harper Perennia) [ARC; solicited]
- Macunaíma, by Mário de Andrade (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Weak in Comparison to Dreams, by James Elkins (Unnamed Books) [ARC; solicited]
- The Book of Eve, by Carmen Boullosa (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Trash, by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- To the Lake, by Yana Vagner (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- My Stupid Intentions, by Bernardo Zannoni (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Tales of Tangier, by Mohamed Choukri (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Sky Above Kharkiv, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Mad Diary of Malcolm Malarkey, by Mark Axelrod (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- A Practical Guide to Levitation, by José Eduardo Agualusa (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Lament for Julia, by Susan Taubes (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Sanity Inspectors, by Friedrich Deich (Boiler House Press) [un+]
- February 1933, by Uwe Wittstock (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- Eventide, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Crime) [ARC; un+]
- Al-Qata'i, by Reem Bassiouney (Georgetown University Press) [requested]
- Mr Narrator, by Pat Gray (Dedalus) [un+]
- Cry Baby, by Ros Franey (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Complete Fear of Kathy Acker, by Jack Skelley (Semiotext(e)) [ARC; solicited]
- Naqqali Trilogy, by Bahram Beyzaie (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Saints at the Limits (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Murder of Anton Livius, by Hansjörg Schneider (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Apprentice Tourist, by Mário de Andrade (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- Merits of the Plague, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- Right by My Side, by David Haynes (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- Bread Givers, by Anzia Yezierska (Penguin Classics) [un+]
- The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig (Penguin Books) [solicited]
- The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Hospital, by Han Song (AmazonCrossing) [solicited]
- Barbara Isn't Dying, by Alina Bronsky (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
- Gray Matters, by William Hjortsberg (Pocket Books) [$4.39]
- Civil War, by Lucan (Oxford World's Classics) [$4.19]
- The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, by Eliza Haywood (Broadview Press) [$5.29]
- Everybody Dies in this Novel, by Beka Adamashvil (Dedalus) [un+]
- La Tercera, by Gina Apostol (Soho) [un+]
- I Hear You're Rich, by Diane Williams (Soho) [un+]
- The Space Between Us, by Zoya Pirzad (Oneworld) [$5.29]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2023
[45 books / 18 reviewed to date]
- Barcode, by Tóth Krisztina (Jantar Publishing) [un+]
- A Love Affair, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Stronghold, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Temporale, by Marina Warner (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, by Rachel Cantor (Soho) [ARC; un+]
- The Man in the Corduroy Suit, by James Wolff (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Stay This Day and Night with Me, by Belé'n Gopegui (City Lights) [solicited]
- The Purchased Bride, by Peter Constantine (Deep Vellum) [ARV; un]
- Buried Treasures, by Jack Zipes (Princeton University Press) [un]
- The Christmas Present, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Queen of Darkness, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
- That Reminds Me, by Derek Owusu (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Your Love Is Not Good, by Johanna Hedva (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Shalash the Iraqi, by Shalash the Iraqi (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- You, Bleeding Childhood, by Michele Mari (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Embroidery, by Sigrún Pálsdóttir (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Not Even the Dead, by Juan Goméz Bárcena (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Trinity, Trinity, Trinity, by Kobayashi Erika (Astra House) requested]
- Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Look at the Lights, My Love, by Annie Ernaux (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies, by Guillaume Payen (Yale University Press) [un+]
- By the Rivers of Babylon, by Antonio Lobo Antunes (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Length of Days, by Volodymyr Rafeyenko (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Portraits of Learned Men, by Paolo Giovio (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America, by Jeremy Jennings (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Saying All That Can Be Said, by Keith McMahon (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Seventy-Five Folios and Other Unpublished Manuscripts, by Marcel Proust (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Die Krise der Narration, by Byung-Chul Han (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) [€12.00]
- Der Duft von Eis, by Ogawa Yoko (liebeskind) [€24.90]
- Morgen, by Walter Kappacher (Suhrkamp) [€3.00]
- Djin Ping Meh (five vols.) (Propyläen Verlag) [€12.00]
- Der Lügner unter Bürgern, by Albert Paris Gütersloh (Fischer) [€1.00]
- Der Krott, by Erich Köhler (Rotbuch) [€3.50]
- Von der Größe unserer Literatur, by Johannes R. Becher (Reclam) [€2.00]
- Mannekino, by Sybren Polet (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag) [€1.00]
- Schriftsteller !, by Jessica Durlacher (Diogenes) [€4.95]
- Arno Schmidt, by Sven Hanuschek (Hanser) [€46.30]
- Die Tapetentür, by Marlen Haushofer (Knaur) [€3.00]
- Maigret und der Fall Simenon, by Maurizio Testa (Residenz Verlag) [€4.00]
- Ardinghello, by Wilhelm Heinse (Reclam) [€16.25]
- Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare, by Clemens J. Setz (Suhrkamp) [€13.37]
- Die Denunziantin, by Brigitte Reimann (Aisthesis Verlag) [€24.67]
- Moriae enconium / Das Lob der Torheit, by Erasmus (Reclam) [€ 9.10]
- Der Fuchs von oben und der Fuchs von unten, by José María Arguedas (Wagenbach) [€25,70]
- Julia, laß das !, by Suzanne Fischer (Suhrkamp) [€30.84]
- Vier Stücke, by Daniel Kehlmann (Rowohlt) [€6.99]
- Doktor Wassers Rezept, by Lars Gustafsson (Fischer) [€5.99]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2023
[26 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- Conjuring the Buddha, by Jacob P. Dalton (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- The Thinking Root, by Dan Beachy-Quick (Milkweed Editions) [un+]
- The Garden of Seven Twilights, by Miquel de Palol (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Birthday Party, by Laurent Mauvignier (Transit Books) [requested]
- Affinities, by Brian Dillon (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Good Men, by Arnon Grunberg (Open Letter) [ARC; requested]
- Ninth Building, by Zou Jingzhi (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- The Impostor, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Ravage & Son, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
- The Mad Emperor, by Harry Sidebottom (Oneworld) [library]
- Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead) [$3.00]
- The House on Via Gemito, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- First Blood, by Amélie Nothomb (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Light at the End of the World, by Siddhartha Deb (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
- I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) [solicited]
- Austral, by Carlos Fonseca (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) ARC; solicited]
- Dying is Easier than Loving, by Ahmet Altan (Europa Editions) [un]
- The Remembered Part, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Pachinko Parlor, by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter) [un+]
- Roosters Crow, Dogs Cry, by Wojciech Tochman (Open Letter) [un+]
- Left Parenthesis, by Muriel Villanueva (Open Letter) [un+]
- Sur's Ocean, by Surdas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Hecale. Hymns. Epigrams, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Miscellaneous Epics and Elegies. Other Fragments. Testimonia, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Letters of William Gaddis (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Hive, by Camilo José Cela (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2023
[22 books / 8 reviewed to date]
- The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy, by David A. Lines (Harvard University Press) [un+]
- The Whore, by Márcia Barbieri (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Deceit, by Yuri Felsen (Astra House) [solicited]
- Anything That Moves, by Jamie Stewart (And Other Stories) [ARC; un]
- Gone to the Wolves, by John Wray (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Aetia. Iambi. Lyric Poems, by Callimachus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Epic of Ram (VII), by Tulsidas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- James Loeb, Collector and Connoisseur, ed. Jeffrey Henderson and Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Cold Nights of Childhood, by Tezer Özlü (Transit Books) [ARC; un+]
- Siblings, by Brigitte Reimann (Transit Books) [ARC; requested]
- The Rope Artist, by Nakamura Fuminori (Soho Press) [ARC; requested]
- Impermanent Blackness, by Korey Garibaldi (Princeton University Press) [un+]
- Collected Works, by Lydia Sandgren (Astra House) [requested]
- The Revolt of the Animals, by Władysław Reymont (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Literature and Politics, by Robert Musil (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Rombo, by Esther Kinsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Daughters Beyond Command, by Véronique Olmi (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
- Black Empire, by George S. Schuyler (Penguin Classics) [catalogue]
- Idol, Burning, by Usami Rin (HarperVia) [library]
- Love at Six Thousand Degrees, by Kashimada Maki (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Monument Maker, by David Keenan (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- A Private Affair, by Beppe Fenoglio (New York Review Books) [un+]
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