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This Index lists the most recent books received and acquired at the complete review, 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 May, 2023
[19 books / 3 reviewed to date]
- 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 teven 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 / 4 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 / 15 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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Books received/acquired in December, 2022
[29 books / 5 reviewed to date]
- A Present Past, by Sergei Lebedev (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Just a Mother, by Roy Jacobsen (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
- The Family Idiot (abrdiged), by Jean-Paul Sartre (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
- Baltic Belles, ed. by Eva Eglāja-Kristsone (Dedalus) [un+]
- Scene of the Crime, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- My Life as Edgar, by Dominique Fabre (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- On the Marble Cliffs, by Ernst Jünger (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Story of a Life, by Konstantin Paustovsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Mystery Train, by Can Xue (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- We the Parasites, by A.V.Marraccini (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- At the Doors, by Boris Pilnyak (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Hallucinated City, by Mário de Andrade (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Journey to the South, by Michal Ajvaz (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Strangers, by Jon Bilbao (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Postscripts, by John Barth (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Daodejing, by Laozi (Liveright) [solicited]
- The Complete Novellas, by Agnes Owens (Polygon) [$7.43]
- A Sensitive Person, by Jáchym Topol (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Black Dove, by Colin McAdam (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
- Arabesques, by Anton Shammas (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Probability Map of the Universe, ed. Barry Loewer, Brad Weslake, Eric Winsberg (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Shards, by Bret Easton Ellis (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- After Sappho, by Selby Wynn Schwartz (Liveright) [catalogue]
- Simple Gimpl, by Isaac Bashevis Singer (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne (Oxford University Press) [$3.80]
- Love in Excess, by Eliza Haywood (Broadview Press) [$4.13]
- Whale, by Cheon Myeong-kwan (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- The Censor's Notebook, by Liliana Corobca (Seven Stories Press) [library]
- Professor Schiff's Guilt, by Agur Schiff (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2022
[25 books / 9 reviewed to date]
- Slow Horses, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [un+]
- Dead Lions, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [un+]
- Standing by the Wall, by Mick Herron (Soho Press) [solicited]
- Tina, Mafia Soldier, by Maria Rosa Cutrufelli (Soho Press) [ARC: un+]
- The Hand That Feeds You, by Mercedes Rosende (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Oblate, by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
- Second Star, by Philippe Delerm (Archipelago) [ARC; un+]
- Trouble, by Katja Ivar (Bitter Lemon Press) [un]
- The Sickness Unto Death, by Søren Kierkegaard (Liveright) [ARC; solicited]
- Language and the Rise of the Algorithm, by Jeffrey M. Binder (University of Chicago Press) [catalogue]
- Forbidden Notebook, by Alba de Céspedes (Astra House) [ARC; solicited]
- The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, by Rainer Maria Rilke (W.W.Norton) [un+]
- What the Thunder Said, by Jed Rasula (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
- The Singularities, by John Banville (Alfred A. Knopf) [library]
- Ice, by Anna Kavan (Penguin Classics) [$2.50]
- Transcription, by Kate Atkinson (Back Bay Books) [$2.00]
- The Custom of the Country, by Edith Wharton (Penguin Books) [solicited]
- XX, by Rian Hughes (The Overlook Press) [requested]
- The Dice Cup, by Max Jacob (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- So Distant From My Life, by Monique Ilboudo (Tilted Axis) [ARC; solicited]
- Punishment of a Hunter, by Yulia Yakovleva (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Metamorphoses, by Ovid (Penguin Books) [solicited]
- The Reindeer Hunters, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2022
[45 books / 16 reviewed to date]
- Solenoid, by Mircea Cărtărescu (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Antagony, by Luis Goytisolo (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Sherlock Holmes: A Scandal in Japan, by Matsuoka Keisuke (Vertical) [$5.29]
- Dead Long Enough, by James Hawes (Vintage) [$4.19]
- Renegade or Halo², by Timothy Mo (Paddleless) [$5.19]
- Hourglass, by Keiran Goddard (Europa Editions) [ARC; un]
- Puppet Flower, by Yao-Chang Chen (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Birthright, by Charles Lambert (Gallic) [un]
- Dinner with Joseph Johnson, by Daisy Hay (Princeton University Press) [un+]
- Seconds, by David Ely (Harper Voyager) [$3.99]
- Rancid Aluminium, by James Hawes (Jonathan Cape) [$5.39]
- Miss Lizzie, by Walter Satterthwait (St. Martin's Press) [$4.19]
- Onder professoren, by Willem Frederik Hermans (De Bezige Bij) [$3.99]
- Chocolates from Tangier, by Jana Zimmer (DoppelHouse Press) [ARC; un]
- Honeymoon to Nowhere, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.12]
- The Informer, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.12]
- The Tattoo Murder Case, by Takagi Akimitsu (Soho Press) [$3.79]
- Masquerade and the Nameless Women, by Mikage Eiji (Vertical) [$4.04]
- New York Nocturne, by Walter Satterthwait (Mysterious Press) [$2.98]
- Sherlock Holmes: the Missing Years, by Jamyang Norbu (Bloomsbury) [$2.88]
- Novelist as a Vocation, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End, by Charles Johnson (New York Review Comics) [un+]
- The Memorial Feast for Kökötöy Khan, by Saghïmbay Orozbaq uulu (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Spicilege, by Marcel Schwob (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Tractatus Logico-Suicidalis, by Hermann Burger (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Philosophy as Dialogue, by Hilary Putnam (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Impersonal Adventure, by Marcel Béalu (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Always the Many, Never the One, by Pierre Joris and Florent Toniello (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- The Last Chairlift, by John Irving (Simon & Schuster) [requested]
- The Curious Casebook of Inspector Hanshichi, by Okamoto Kidō (University of Hawaii Press) [$5.38]
- Duel, by Borys Antonenko-Davydovych (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Last Samurai Reread, by Lee Konstantinou (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- Eclogues / Garden of the Hesperides, by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Stand, by Stephen King (Signet) [$4.58]
- The Writer at Work, by C.K. Stead (University of Otago Press) [$3.38]
- Beyond, by Horacio Quiroga (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Chimeras, by Daniela Cascella (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Freedom Reread, by L. Gibson (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Narrow Cage, by Vasily Eroshenko (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Motion Picture Teller, by Colin Cotterill (Soho Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- Chéri / The End of Chéri, by Colette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Ancestry, by Simon Mawer (Other Press) [un]
- The Confessions of Matthew Strong, by Ousmane K. Power-Greene (Other Oress) un]
- Selected Works, by Vladimir Vysotsky (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Sons of the People, by Reem Bassiouney (Syracuse University Press) solicited]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2022
[28 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- The Right to Be Lazy, by Paul Lafargue (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Nights of Plague, by Orhan Pamuk (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Try Not to Be Strange, by Michael Hingston (Biblioasis) [requested]
- Bright Unbearable Reality, by Anna Badkhen (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Seduced by Story, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Blumkin Project, by Christian Salmon (Other Press) [un+]
- The Color Line, by Igiaba Scego (Other Press) [un+]
- The Thorn Puller, by Ito Hiromi (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; requested]
- The Words That Remain, by Stênio Gardel (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+
- This was the Man, by Louise Colet (Dedalus) [un+]
- This Woman, This Man, by (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Illuminated Burrow, by Max Blecher (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- House of the Nine Devils, by Johannes Urzidil (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- The Enigma of Room 622, by Joël Dicker (HarperVia) [requested]
- Eine Liebe in Pjöngjang, by Andreas Stichmann (Rowohlt) [e-book; requested]
- Island of Bewilderment, by Simin Daneshvar (Syracuse University Press) [requested]
- Kilometer 101, by Maxim Osipov (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Bad Angel Brothers, by Paul Theroux (Mariner Books) [requested]
- People from My Neighborhood, by Kawakami Hiromi (Soft Skull Press) [$2.00]
- Conversations with Primo Levi, by Ferdinando Camon (The Marlboro Press) [$1.00]
- Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, by Jules Verne (Oxford World's Classics) [$2.00]
- Home Is the Sailor Paperback, by Jorge Amado (Bard) [$1.00]
- The Enemy, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.00]
- Personal, by Lee Child (Dell) [$2.00]
- Three Streets, by Tawada Yoko (New Directions) [catalogue]
- The Famous Magician, by César Aira (New Directions) [catalogue]
- Querelle of Roberval, by Kevin Lambert (Bibloasis) [ARC; un+]
- Nine Quarters of Jerusalem, by Matthew Teller (Other Press) [un]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2022
[49 books / 15 reviewed to date]
- The Woman Who Killed the Fish, by Clarice Lispector (New Directions) [catalogue]
- The English Understand Wool, by Helen DeWitt (New Directions) [catalogue]
- Spadework for a Palace, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [catalogue]
- Early Light, by Dazai Osamu (New Directions) [catalogue]
- Barefoot Doctor, by Can Xue (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Valiant Little Tailor, by Éric Chevillard (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The People Immortal, by Vasily Grossman (New York Review Books) [un+]
- How to Suppress Women's Writing, by Joanna Russ (University of Texas Press) [$3.35]
- Laura Warholic, by Alexander Theroux (Fantagraphics) [$8.01]
- Last Night in Nuuk, by Niviaq Korneliussen (Black Cat) [$3.53]
- The Vigil, by Sarah Joseph (HarperCollins India) [$3.17]
- Into the Mainstream, by Luis Harss and Barbara Dohmann (Harper & Row) [$4.03]
- Critical Times, by Derwent May (Harper Collins) [$8.00]
- Case Study, by Graeme Macrae Burnet (Biblioasis) [ARC; solicited]
- Eastbound, by Maylis de Kerangal (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1800-1815, by François-René de Chateaubriand (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk, by Lu Xun (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Bambi, by Felix Salten (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The World According to Proust, by Joshua Landy (Oxford University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Undercurrents, by Kirsty Bell (Other Press) [un+]
- Conversations with Goethe, by Johann Peter Eckermann (Penguin Classics) [ARC; solicited]
- Launch Something !, by Bae Myung-Hoon (Honford Star) [solicited]
- My Phantoms, by Gwendoline Riley (New York Review Books) [un+]
- First Love, by Gwendoline Riley (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Historia Augusta 93 vols.) (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Lysis. Symposium. Phaedrus, by Plato (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- You'll Like it Here, by Ashton Politanoff (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Deer, by Dashiel Carrera (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- No Windmills in Basra, by Diaa Jubaili (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Freeway, by Jorge Enrique Lage (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Love in Defiance of Pain: Ukrainian Stories, ed. Ali Kinsella, Zenia Tompkins, and Ross Ufberg (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Motherfield, by Julia Cimafiejeva (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Freezing Down, by Anders Bodelsen (Harper & Row) [$5.39]
- The Jewel of Seven Stars, by Bram Stoker (Carroll & Graf) [$4.59]
- A Woman of the Future, by David Ireland (Bantam Books) [$5.29]
- Lunatic Villas, by Marian Engel (Seal Books) [$4.59]
- Sojourn, by Amit Chaudhuri (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Three Assassins, by Isaka Kotaro (The Overlook Press) [requested]
- The Oxford Brotherhood, by Guillermo Martinez (Pegasus Books) [library]
- Bruno's Dream, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin Books) [$4.59]
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort Of Books) [solicited]
- Headless World, by Ascher/Straus (McPherson & Company) [ARC; un+]
- No One Weeps for Me Now, by Sergio Ramírez (McPherson & Company) [ARC; un+]
- The Threshold, by Iman Mersal (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC;' un+]
- The Cabinet, by Kim Un-su (Angry Robot) [library]
- Where the Grass no longer Grows, by Georges Magnane (Dedalus) [un+]
- De-Integrate !, by Max Czollek (Restless Books) [ARC; un]
- Fifty Forgotten Books, by R.B.Russell (And Other Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Last Pomegranate Tree, by Bachtyar Ali (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2022
[37 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- Draw Me After, by Peter Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un]
- A Very Old Man, by Italo Svevo (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Lady Joker (vol. 2), by Takamura Kaoru (Soho Crime) [ARC; requested]
- Days of Anger, by Sylvie Germain (Dedalus) [un+]
- Boulder, by Eva Baltasar (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Telluria, by Vladimir Sorokin (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Sentimental Economy, by Edoardo Nesi (Other Press) [un]
- Last Times, by Victor Serge (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Autobiographies of an Angel, by Gabor Schein (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Black–White–Red, by Mynona (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Get ’em Young, Treat ’em Tough, Tell ’em Nothing, by Robin McLean (And Other Stories) [ARC; un]
- Sultana's Dream and Padmarag, by Rokeya Hossain (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Invasion of the Spirit People, by Juan Pablo Villalobos (And Other Books) [ARC; un+]
- How to Turn Into a Bird, by María José Ferrada (Tin House) [ARC; un+]
- The Illuminated, by Gérard de Nerval (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations, ed. by Olival Freire Jr (Oxford University Press) [requested]
- Absolute Friends, by John le Carré (Little, Brown) [$1.00]
- The Wild Palms, by William Faulkner (Vintage Books) [$1.00]
- The Glory of the Hummingbird, by Peter De Vries (Popular Library) [$1.00]
- Serendipity, by Ashok Ferrey (Vintage (India)) [$1.00]
- A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Penguin Classics) [$1.00]
- The Galton Case, by Ross Macdonald (Vintage Crime) [$1.00]
- Bilbao - New York - Bilbao, by Kirmen Uribe (Seren) [$1.00]
- Open Heart, by A.B. Yehoshua (Harcourt Brace) [$1.00]
- Witness to the Future, by Klaus Rifbjerg (Fjord Press) [$1.00]
- The Still Storm, by Françoise Sagan (E.P.Dutton) [$3.00]
- Pyre, by Perumal Murugan (Hamish Hamilton) [$3.00]
- Mr. Breakfast, by Jonathan Carroll (Melville House) [ARC; solicited]
- Kyoto Stories, by Steve Alpert (Stone Bridge Press) [un]
- Fathers and Children, by Ivan Turgenev (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Fragrant Companions, by Li Yu (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Ti Amo, by Hanne Ørstavik (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Book and the Sword, by Louis Cha (Oxford University Press) [$8.55]
- Clouds, Wasps, Peace, by Aristophanes (Harvard University Press) [$9.45]
- Shield of Straw, by Kiuchi Kazuhiro (Vertical) [$5.58]
- The Injester, by Ugo Tognazzi (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Toad, by Katherine Dunn (MCD) [ARC; un]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2022
[22 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- Human Nature, by Serge Joncour (Gallic) [un+]
- A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding, by Amanda Svensson (Scribe) [ARC; solicited]
- The Night Will Have Its Say, by Ibrahim al-Koni (Hoopoe) [solicited]
- The Betrayed, by Reine Arcache Melvin (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Ghost Town, by Kevin Chen (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- A General Practice, by Anna-Louise Milne (Sylph Editions) [solicited]
- Quarry, by Rachel Cusk (Sylph Editions) [solicited]
- A Good and Dignified Life, by Joke J Hermsen (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Enormous Room, by E.E.Cummings (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Yoga, by Emmanuel Carrère (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; requested]
- The Shehnai Virtuoso, by Dhumketu (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Driving Lessons, by Tim Coursey (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Diary of a Film, by Niven Govinden (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Aesthetica, by Allie Rowbottom (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- Death on Gokumon Island, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Flowers of Lhasa, by Tsering Yangkyi (Balestier Press) [requested]
- Casablanca Story, by In Koli Jean Bofane (Indiana University Press) [un+]
- The Flanders Road, by Claude Simon (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Last Island, by Zülfü Livaneli (Other Press) [un+]
- Murmeljagd, by Ulrich Becher (Diogenes) [catalogue]
- Heritage, by Miguel Bonnefoy (Other Press) [un+]
- Fair Trade Heroin, by Rachael McGill (Dedalus) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2022
[39 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- Golden Age, by Wang Xiaobo (Astra House) [requested]
- Captain Ni'mat's Last Battle, by Mohamed Leftah (Other Press) [un+]
- All Your Children, Scattered, by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Time Shelter, by Georgi Gospodinov (Liveright) [catalogue]
- Vagina Obscura, by Rachel E Gross (W.W.Norton) [catalogue]
- Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan (W.W.Norton) [catalogue]
- Private Notebooks: 1914-1916, by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Liveright) [catalogue]
- The Man from the Future, by Ananyo Bhattacharya (W.W.Norton) [catalogue]
- Mr. Wilder and Me, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Dawn, by Sevgi Soysal (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Visible Unseen, by Andrea Chapela (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Blown Away, by Richard Boothby (Other Press) [un]
- The Lisbon Syndrome, by Eduardo Sánchez Rugeles (Turtle Point Press) [ARC; solicited]
- There Are No Happy Loves, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, by Onda Riku (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Esmond and Ilia, by Marina Warner (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Clandestinity, by Antonio Moresco (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Broken Summer, by J.M.Lee (Amazon Crossing) [ARC; solicited]
- The Familia Grande, by Camille Kouchner (Other Press) [un+]
- Bad Handwriting, by Sara Mesa (Open Letter) [un+]
- Mothers Don't, by Katixa Agirre (Open Letter) [un+]
- Wolfskin, by Lara Moreno (Open Letter) [un+]
- A Film, by Victor Català (Open Letter) [un+]
- Black Village, by Lutz Bassmann (Open Letter) [un+]
- Red and Black, by Stendhal (University of Minnesota Press) [solicited]
- Bad Eminence, by James Greer (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Kibogo, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Last Days of Terranova, by Manuel Rivas (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Goatibex Constellation, by Fazil Iskander (Overlook Press\) [$4.05]
- The Sacred and Profane Love Machine, by Iris Murdoch (Viking) [$2.99]
- The Message to the Planet, by Iris Murdoch (Penguin Books) [$2.99]
- Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh, by Robert Irwin (The Overlook Press) [$5.45]
- The Fan-Makers Inquisition, by Rikki Ducornet (Henry Holt) [$2.99]
- A Borrowed Man, by Gene Wolfe (Tor) [$3.19]
- A Season on Earth, by Gerald Murnane (Text) [$3.99]
- House of all Nations, by Christina Stead (Holt, Rinehart and Winston) [$0.57]
- Prae II, by Szentkuthy Miklós (Contra Mundum) [requested]
- The Unseen, by Roy Jacobsen (Biblioasis) [solicited]
- Eyes of the Rigel, by Roy Jacobsen (Biblioasis) [solicited]
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