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Authors - P-Q:

• P., Melissa:
  • 100 Strokes of the Brush Before Bed (D)
  • The Scent of Your Breath (C-)
• PAASILINNA, Arto:
  • The Howling Miller (B+)
  • Hurmaava joukkoitsemurha (B+)
  • Maailman paras kylä (B)
  • Paratiisisaaren vangit (B)
  • The Year of the Hare (B+)
• PACIFICO, Francesco: The Story of my Purity (B)
• PADEL, Ruth: Darwin (B+)
• PADILLA, Ignacio:
  • Antipodes (B-)
  • Shadow without a Name (A-)
• PADURA FUENTES, Leonardo:
  • Adiós Hemingway (B+)
  • Havana Black (B+)
  • Havana Blue (B+)
  • [Havana Fever]
  • Havana Gold (B)
  • Havana Red (B+)
  • Heretics (A-)
  • The Man Who Loved Dogs (B+)
• PAEK Nam-nyong: Friend (B)
• PÄS, Heinrich: The Perfect Wave (B)
• PAGANI, Robert: The Princess, the King, and the Anarchist (B+)
• PAGANO, Emmanuelle: Trysting (B+)
• PAGE, Martin:
  • The Discreet Pleasures of Rejection (B)
  • How I Became Stupid (B)
• PAJAK, Frédéric: Uncertain Manifesto (B)
• PALINURUS (Cyril CONNOLY): The Unquiet Grave (A-)
• PALMA, Félix J.: The Map of Time (B-)
• PALMEN, Connie: Your Story, My Story (B)
• PALMER, Mark: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil (B)
• PALMIER, Jean-Michel: Walter Benjamin (A-)
• PALOL, Miquel de: The Garden of Seven Twilights (B+)
• PAMUK, Orhan:
  • Istanbul (B)
  • The Museum of Innocence (B+)
  • My Name is Red (A-)
  • The Naive and the Sentimental Novelist (B)
  • Nights of Plague (B)
  • Silent House (B+)
  • Snow (B+)
• PANAEVA, Avdotya: The Talnikov Family (B)
• PANCOL, Katherine: The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles (C)
• PAPADIAMANTIS, Alexandros: The Murderess (B+)
• PAPADIMITRIOU, Christos H.:
  • Logicomix (B-) (with Apostolos Doxiadis)
  • Turing (B)
• PAPINI, Giovanni: The Failure (B)
• PAREI, Inka: Die Schattenboxerin (A-)
• PARK Min-gyu: Pavane for a Dead Princess (B+)
• [PARKER, Geoffrey: Global Crisis]
• PARKES, Nii Ayikwei: Tail of the Blue Bird (B)
• PARLAND, Henry: To Pieces (B+)
• PARRA, Nicanor: Antipoems: How to Look Better & Feel Great (B+)
• PARSIPUR, Shahrnush:
  • Touba and the Meaning of Night (B+)
  • Women without Men (A-)
• PARTHASARATHY, R. (ed.): Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit (B)
• PASKOV, Victor: Аутопсия на една любов (B)
• PASO, Fernando del: Palinuro of Mexico (A)
• PASTIOR, Oskar: o du roher iasmin (-)
• PATERNITI, Michael: Driving Mr. Albert (B)
• PATHAK, Surender Mohan: The 65 Lakh Heist (B)
• PATRICK, K.: Mrs. S (B)
• PATRY, William: How to Fix Copyright (B+)
• PAULOS, John Allen:
  • Innumeracy (B-)
  • Irreligion (B)
• PAVA, Sergio De La: Personae (B+)
• PAVLOVA, Karolina: A Double Life (B+)
• PAYEN, Guillaume: Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies (A-)
• PAZ, Octavio:
  • An Erotic Beyond: Sade (A-)
  • In Light of India (B+)
  • A Tale of Two Gardens (B+)
• PAZ SOLDÁN, Edmundo:
  • The Matter of Desire (B)
  • Norte (B)
  • Turing's Delirium (B)
• PAZZI, Roberto: Conclave (B)
• p'BITEK, Okot:
  • The Defence of Lawino (B) (tr. Taban lo Liyong)
  • Song of Lawino and Song of Ocol (B+)
  • White Teeth (B-)
• PEACE, David: Tokyo Year Zero (B+)
• PEARS, Iain:
  • Arcadia (A)
  • The Dream of Scipio (B+)
  • The Immaculate Deception (B)
  • An Instance of the Fingerpost (B)
  • The Last Judgement (B)
  • The Raphael Affair (B+)
  • Stone's Fall (B)
• PEDDANA, Allasani: The Story of Manu (B+)
• PEKIĆ, Borislav:
  • The Apology and the Last Days (B)
  • Houses (also as: The Houses of Belgrade) (B+)
  • How to Quiet a Vampire (A-)
• PELEVIN, Victor (Russia):
  • Empire V (B)
  • The Hall of the Singing Caryatids (B)
  • The Helmet of Horror (B-)
  • The Sacred Book of the Werewolf (B-)
• 'PEN, John': Temptation (B+)
• PENNAC, Daniel:
  • The Dictator and the Hammock (B)
  • Monsieur Malaussène (B)
  • Passion Fruit (B)
  • The Scapegoat (B)
  • Write to Kill (B+)
• PENNOCK, Robert T.:
  • ed. Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics (-)
  • Tower of Babel (B+)
• PEPETELA:
  • Jaime Bunda, Secret Agent (B)
  • The Utopian Generation (B+)
  • Yaka (B)
• PERA, Pia: Lo's Diary (B-) (also: Diario di Lo)
• PEREC, Georges:
  • See the complete review's Georges Perec page
  • An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (B+)
  • the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise (US title: The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise) (-)
  • "53 Days" (-)
  • I Remember (B)
  • La Boutique Obscure (B)
  • Life A User's Manual (A)
  • The Machine (A)
  • A Man Asleep (A-)
  • Portrait of a Man Known as Il Condottiere (UK title: Portrait of a Man) (B)
  • A Short Treatise Inviting the Reader to Discover the Subtle Art of Go (B+), with Pierre Lusson and Jacques Roubaud
  • Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (A-)
  • Things (A-)
  • Thoughts of Sorts (A-)
  • Three (B)
  • Wishes (-)
  • See also: AA files 45/46: Georges Perec + Paris (B+)
  • See also: Georges Perec (A), David BELLOS
• PÉREZ GALDÓS, Benito:
  • Fortunata and Jacinta (A-)
  • Tristana (A-)
• PÉREZ SUBIRANA, Manuel: Losing is What Matters (B)
• PERIŠIĆ, Robert: Our Man in Iraq (B)
• PERLSTEIN, Rick: The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo (B)
• PERRAULT, Gilles: Dossier 51 (B)
• PERRIGNON, Judith: The Eyes of Lira Kazan (B), with Eva Joly
• PERSSON, Leif GW:
  • Another Time, Another Life (A-)
  • Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End (B)
  • The Dying Detective (B)
  • Free Falling, As If in a Dream (B+)
  • He Who Kills the Dragon (B-)
  • Linda, As in the Linda Murder (B)
  • The Sword of Justice (B)
• PERSSON GIOLITO, Malin:
  • Beyond All Reasonable Doubt (B)
  • Quicksand (B)
• PERUMAL Murugan: One Part Woman (B+)
• PESSL, Marisha:
  • Night Film (B-)
  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics (B-)
• PETKOVIĆ, Nikola: How to Tie Your Shoes (B)
• PETRARCA, Francesco: My Secret Book (B+)
• PETREU, Marta: An Infamous Past (A-)
• PETRONIUS:
  • Satyricon (B+) (tr. Michael Heseltine)
  • Satyricon (B+) (tr. Gareth Schmeling)
• [PETROSYAN, Mariam: The Gray House]
• PETRUSHEVSKAYA, Ludmilla: There Once Lived a Girl who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself (B)
• PETSINIS, Tom: The French Mathematician (B)
• PETTERSON, Per:
  • I Curse the River of Time (A-)
  • In the Wake (B+)
  • Out Stealing Horses (A-)
  • To Siberia (A-)
• PEZESHKZAD, Iraj: Hafez in Love (B)
• PFEIJFFER, Ilja Leonard:
  • Grand Hotel Europa (B+)
  • La Superba (B+)
  • Rupert: A Confession (B+)
• [PHILIPPONNAT, Olivier: The Life of Irène Némirovsky (with Patrick Lienhardt)]
• PHILLIPS, Adam:
  • The Beast in the Nursery (B)
  • Darwin's Worms (B)
  • Promises, Promises (B)
• PHILLIPS, Helen: The Beautiful Bureaucrat (B)
• PHILLIPS, Marie: Gods Behaving Badly (B+)
• PHILOSTRATUS:
  • Heroicus (B)
  • Lives of the Sophists (B)
• [PIATTELLI-PALMARINI, Massimo: What Darwin Got Wrong (with Jerry Fodor)]
• PIERRE, DBC: Vernon God Little (C+)
• PIGLIA, Ricardo:
  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life (B+)
  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: Formative Years (B+)
  • The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: The Happy Years (B+)
  • The Way Out (A-)
• PILCH, Jerzy:
  • His Current Woman (B+)
  • The Mighty Angel (B+)
  • My First Suicide (B+)
  • A Thousand Peaceful Cities (B+)
• PILLE, Lolita: Paris 75016 (D)
• PILNYAK, Boris: Ivan Moscow (B)
• PIÑEIRO, Claudia:
  • All Yours (B)
  • Betty Boo (B)
  • A Crack in the Wall (B)
  • Thursday Night Widows (B)
• PINTO, Jerry:
  • Em and the Big Hoom (B+)
  • Helen (B)
• PINTO-CORREIA, Clara: Return of the Crazy Bird (B-)
• [PIPERNO, Alessandro: The Worst Intentions]
• PIRANDELLO, Luigi:
  • The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio (also: Shoot !) (B+)
  • One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand (B+)
• PIRES, Jacinto Lucas: The True Actor (B)
• PIRZAD, Zoya:
  • The Space Between Us (B+)
  • Things We Left Unsaid (B+)
• PIŠT'ANEK, Peter:
  • The End of Freddy (A-)
  • Rivers of Babylon (A-)
  • The Wooden Village (B+)
• PITIGRILLI: Cocaine (A)
• PLA, Josep: The Gray Notebook (B+)
• PLATONOV, Andrey: Happy Moscow (B+)
• PLAUTUS:
  • Amphitryon (B+)
  • The Comedy of Asses (B)
• PLENZDORF, Ulrich: The New Sorrows of Young W. (B+)
• PLETZINGER, Thomas: Funeral for a Dog (B)
• POLIER, Antoine-Louis Henri: I'Jaz-i Arsalani (Persian Letters) (--)
• POLIZZOTTI, Mark:
  • S. (B)
  • Why Surrealism Matters (B)
• POLKINGHORNE, John: The God of Hope and the End of the World (--)
• POND, Hattie: On Wandsworth Bridge (A-)
• PONGE, Francis:
  • Mute Objects of Expression (A-)
  • Soap (B)
• PONTANO, Giovanni Gioviano:
  • Aegidius (B)
  • Antonius (B)
  • Asinus (B)
  • Charon (B)
• PONTIGGIA, Giuseppe: The Invisible Player (B+)
• PONTOPPIDAN, Henrik: Lucky Per (B+)
• POOL, Gail: Faint Praise (A-)
• POOLE, Ernest: The Harbor (B+)
• POPOV, Alek: Mission London (B)
• POPPER, Karl: The Open Society and its Enemies (A-)
• POPPY, Edy: Anatomy. Monotony. (B-)
• PORTA, Antonio: The King of the Storeroom (B+)
• PORTER, Chana: The Seep (B)
• PORTER, Dorothy: Akhenaten (B)
• POSADAS, Carmen: Child's Play (B-)
• POSCHMANN, Marion: The Pine Islands (A-)
• POSNER, Richard A.:
  • See the complete review's Richard Posner page
  • An Affair of State (A-)
  • Breaking the Deadlock (B)
  • Catastrophe (B-)
  • The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy (B)
  • Divergent Paths (B)
  • A Failure of Capitalism (B)
  • A Guide to America's Sex Laws (--)
  • How Judges Think (B)
  • The Little Book of Plagiarism (B+)
  • The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (B)
  • Public Intellectuals (B+)
  • Reflections on Judging (B+)
  • See also: Richard Posner (B), William Domnarski
• POTTER, Dennis:
  • Blue Remembered Hills (B+)
  • Cold Lazarus (B)
  • Cream in my Coffee (B)
  • Hide and Seek (B+)
  • Joe's Ark (B+)
  • Karaoke (A-)
  • The Singing Detective (A)
  • See also:
    • Potter on Potter (B+)
    • Dennis Potter (B), Humphrey Carpenter
    • The Passion of Dennis Potter (B)
• PÖTZSCH, Oliver: The Ludwig Conspiracy (B-)
• POUGY, Liane de: Chasing the Dream (B)
• POULIN, Jacques:
  • Autumn Rounds (B+)
  • Mister Blue (B+)
  • Translation is a Love Affair (B+)
• POWELL, Anthony: Afternoon Men (B+)
• POWELL, Padgett:
  • The Interrogative Mood (B+)
  • You & Me (B) (UK title: You & I)
• POWER, Arthur: Conversations with James Joyce (B+)
• POWER, Samantha: "A Problem from Hell" (A-)
• POWERS, Richard: Generosity (A-)
• PRABDA Yoon: The Sad Part Was (B)
• PRAKASH, Uday:
  • The Girl with the Golden Parasol (B+)
  • The Walls of Delhi (B+)
• PREMCHAND: The Gift of a Cow (B+)
• PRESTON, John:
  • Feyerabend (B-)
  • The Worst Enemy of Science ? - Essays in memory of Paul Feyerabend (B+)
• PRON, Patricio: My Fathers' Ghost is Climbing in the Rain (B+)
• PROUST, Marcel: The Lemoine Affair (B+)
• PRUS, Bolesław: The Doll (A-)
• PU Songling: The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute (B+)
• PUJOL, Pascale: Little Culinary Triumphs (B-)
• PULLEYN, Simon (ed.): Homer: Odyssey, Book I (A-)
• PULLMAN, Philip:
  • The Book of Dust - trilogy:
    • I. La Belle Sauvage (B)
  • The Adventures of John Blake (C)
  • His Dark Materials (B+)
    • I. Northern Lights (US title: The Golden Compass) (B+)
    • II. The Subtle Knife (B)
    • III. The Amber Spyglass (B+)
• PUSHKIN, Alexander: The Captain's Daughter (B+)
• PYETSUKH, Vyacheslav: The New Moscow Philosophy (B+)
• PYNCHON, Thomas:
  • Against the Day (B+)
  • Inherent Vice (B+)
• PYUN Hye-Young:
  • City of Ash and Red (B+)
  • The Hole (B)
• QĀ'EM-MAQĀMI, Ālam-Tāj: Mirror of Dew (B+)
• QASIM, Abd al-Hakim: Rites of Assent (B)
• QI Fanniu [?]: The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (B)
• QIAN Zhongshu: Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts (B+)
• QIU Miaojin:
  • Last Words from Montmartre (B+)
  • Notes of a Crocodile (B+)
• QUENEAU, Raymond:
  • Children of Clay (B+)
  • Exercises in Style (A+)
  • The Flight of Icarus (A-)
  • The Last Days (B-)
  • We Always Treat Women Too Well (B)
  • Zazie in the Metro (B+)
• QUEENAN, Joe: One for the Books (B)
• QUEVEDO, Francisco de: Dreams and Discourses (A-)
• QUIGNARD, Pascal:
  • The Answer to Lord Chandos (A-)
  • On Wooden Tablets: Apronenia Avitia (B+)
  • The Roving Shadows (B+)
  • A Terrace in Rome (B+)
• QUIN, Ann:
  • See the complete review's Ann Quin page
  • Berg (B)
  • Passages (B)
  • Three (B+)
  • Tripticks (B+)
• QUINTILIAN: The Major Declamations (B+)
• QUINTREAU, Laurent: Gross Margin (B)
• QUINTUS Smyrnaeus: Posthomerica (B+)

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