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Most recent additions to the complete review:

Dany Laferrière's 1985 debut, How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired

Jorge Comensal's novel, The Mutations

Narayan Wagle's modern Nepali classic, Palpasa Café

Virginie Despentes' Vernon Subutex 1 finlly makes it to the US as well

Jung Young Moon's Texas-novel, Seven Samurai Swept Away in a River, just about out from Deep Vellum

Mishima Yukio's pulpy 1968 novel, Life for Sale -- already out in the UK; coming to the US ... next April

A selection of non-fiction pieces by Emmanuel Carrère, 97,196 Words

Nikolaj Frobenius' novel, De Sade's Valet

Oyamada Hiroko's dark little novel, The Factory

Piero Chiara's 1976 novel, The Bishop's Bedroom, now in English, from New Vessel Press

Geoff Nicholson's 1987 debut, Street Sleeper

Michael Schmidt on Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem

Kawakami Hiromi's little Parade: A Folktale, just about out in English, from Soft Skull Press

Ričardas Gavelis' final novel Sun-Tzu's Life, recently out from Pica Pica Press

Another recently re-issued Sébastien Japrisot thriller, The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

Alain Mabanckou's 2002 novel, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, now out in English, from Indiana University Press

Petronius' classic Satyricon, in the Loeb Classical Library series edition

Newly minted Nobel laureate Peter Handke's Beckett-variation, Till Day You Do Part -- in a trilingual edition !

Inui Rokuro's Automatic Eve, recently from Haikasoru

Kiran Nagarkar's grand historical epic, Cuckold

Gabriel Okara's 1964 novel, The Voice

Laurent Gaudé's verse-epic about the European Union, Our Europe: Banquet of Nations

Alberts Bels' classic Soviet-era mystery novel, The Cage

A (fairly) new translation of Émile Zola's A Love Story

Demetrio Aguilera Malta's Babelandia

O.V.Vijayan's 1987 novel, The Infinity of Grace

Christine Brooke-Rose's 1991 novel, Textermination

Javier Marías recent novel, Berta Isla, now also out in the US

Israeli author Ronit Matalon's And the Bride Closed the Door, just about out from New Vessel Press

Andrej Blatnik's Change Me, just about out from Dalkey Archive Press

The second in Upendranath Ashk's Falling Walls-series, In the City a Mirror Wandering

Geoffrey Hill's grand final collection of poetry, The Book of Baruch by the Gnostic Justin

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