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the complete review
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, 2022
[31 books / 2 reviewed to date]
- 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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Books received/acquired in April, 2022
[42 books / 5 reviewed to date]
- Memory of Departure, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- Pilgrims Way, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- Dottie, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- Admiring Silence, by Abdulrazak Gurnah (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- To the Stars, by Fyodor Sologub (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Sacrificio, by Ernesto Mestre-Reed (Soho Press) [ARC; un+]
- Girl, by Camille Laurens (Other Press) [un+]
- Bad Girls, by Camila Sosa Villada (Other Press) [un+]
- Canción, by Eduardo Halfon (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Against Constitutionalism, by Martin Loughlin (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Chevron Doctrine, by Thomas W. Merrill (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Victorious, by Yishai Sarid (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- People from Bloomington, by Budi Darma (Penguin Classics) [catalogue]
- Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy, by Peter Adamson (Oxford University Press) [solicited]
- M: Son of the Century, by Antonio Scurati (Harper) [requested]
- In Praise of Good Bookstores, by Jeff Deutsch (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
- The True Account of Myself as a Bird, by Robert Wrigley (Penguin Poets) [ARC; un]
- Late Fragments, by Charles Baudelaire (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Cacaphonies, by Annabel L. Kim (University of Minnesota Press) [catalogue]
- What If ?, by Vilém Flusser (University of Minnesota Press) [catalogue]
- Diary of a Void, by Yagi Emi (Viking) [ARC; solicited]
- Tagebücher (two vols.), by Rudolf Carnap (Meiner) [requested]
- Venomous Lumpsucker, by Ned Beauman (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- The Orphic Voice, by Elizabeth Sewell (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Reward System, by Jem Calder (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un]
- The Museum, by Samuel J. Redman (NYU Press) [solicited]
- The Age of the Strongman, by Gideon Rachman (Other Press) [un+]
- Reasons and Persons, by Derek Parfit (Oxford University Press) [$15.94]
- Empire V, by Victor Pelevin (Gollancz) [$4.63]
- Memorial, by Bruce Wagner (Simon & Schuster) [$2.79]
- A Guide for Murdered Children, by Sarah Sparrow (Blue Rider Press) [$2.79]
- Harlot's Ghost, by Norman Mailer (Ballantine Books) [$2.91]
- A Captive of the Caucasus, by Andrei Bitov (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [$2.79]
- 533 Days, by Cees Nooteboom (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Grand Hotel Europa, by Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARCl requested]
- Mister N, by Najwa Barakat (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, by Gerald Murnane (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Tamarisk Row, by Gerald Murnane (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Last Letter to a Reader, by Gerald Murnane (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Rabelais's Doughnuts, by Pierre Senges (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Ivan Moscow, by Boris Pilnyak (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2022
[34 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- All the Lovers in the Night, by Kawakami Mieko (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Lambda, by David Musgrave (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Time: The Present, by Tess Slesinger. (Recovered Books) [un+]
- Seven Brief Lessons on Language, by Jonathan Dunne (Small Stations) [solicited]
- The White Room, by Zoran Živković (Cadmus Press) [solicited]
- Tomb of Sand, by Geetanjali Shree (Tilted Axis Press) [requested]
- The Projector / Elephant, by Martin Vaughn-James (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Child Is the Teacher, by Cristina De Stefano (Other Press) [un]
- Thread Ripper, by Amalie Smith (lolli) [ARC; un+]
- Japanese Cinema, by Peter Cowie (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; un]
- Finnegans Wakes, by Patrick O'Neill (University of Toronto Press) [requested]
- The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki, ed. by Robert P. Goldman (Princeton University Press) [requested]
- Three Rings, by Daniel Mendelsohn (New York Review Books) [un+]
- School Days, by Jonathan Galassi (Other Press) [un]
- After the Lights Go Out, by John Vercher (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- The Very Last Interview, by David Shields (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Journey to Italy, by the Marquis de Sade (University of Toronto Press) [requested]
- Peter the Great's African, by Alexander Pushkin (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Flight and Metamorphosis, by Nelly Sachs (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- In the Margins, by Elena Ferrante (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
- Brisbane, by Eugene Vodolazkin (Plough Publishing House) [ARC; requested]
- Grey Bees, by Andrey Kurkov (Deep Vellum) [ARC; requested]
- The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali, by Uzma Aslam Khan (Deep Vellum) [ARC; requested]
- Poguemahone, by Patrick McCabe (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Backstreets, by Perhat Tursun (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Underwater Eye, by Margaret Cohen (Princeton University Press) [un]
- Of Saints and Miracles, by Manuel Astur (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- What is American Literature ?, by Ilan Stavans (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, ed. by Yu Chen and Regina Kanyu Wang (Tor.com) [requested]
- The Hummingbird, by Sandro Veronesi (HarperVia) [requested]
- The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (Palgrave Macmillan) e-book; requested]
- Vita Nuova, by Dante Alighieri (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Gentlemen Callers, by Corinne Hoex (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- The Longcut, by Emily Hall (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- A Novel to Read on the Train, by Dumitru Tsepeneag (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- Resurrection, by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Warning to the Crocodiles, by Antonio Lobo Antunes (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Their Four Hearts , by Vladimir Sorokin (Dalkey Archive Press) [ARC; un+]
- Eugenia, by Eduardo Urzaiz (University of Wisconsin Press) [$5.84]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2022
[55 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- Kalīlah and Dimnah, by Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ (NYU Press) [un+]
- George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time, by Peter Dimock (Dalkey Archive Press) [$3.38]
- The End of The Century at The End of The World, by C.K.Stead (Harvill) [$4.17]
- The Interpreter, by Diego Marani (Dedalus) [$3.38]
- Mangeclous, by Albert Cohen (Folio) [$3.38]
- Marie, by Madeleine Bourdouxhe (Daunt Books) [$3.98]
- Pure, by Timothy Mo (Turnaround Books) [$3.81]
- Many Lives, by Kukrit Pramoj (Silkworm Books) [$3.38]
- The Medieval Chastity Belt, by Albrecht Classen (Palgrave) [$17.72]
- Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason, by John Kadvany (Duke University Press) [$5.43]
- The Three Fat Men, by Yuri Olesha (Hesperus) [$3.71]
- Glory, by NoViolet Bulawayo (Viking) solicited]
- The Sixteen Trees of the Somme, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Major Declamations (three vols.), by Quintilian (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Homeward from Heaven, by Boris Poplavsky (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Stravaging “Strange”, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Out of This World, by Rachel S. Cordasco (University of Illinois Press) [requested]
- Haymaker in Heaven, by Edvard Hoem (Milkweed) [un+]
- The Redemption Cut, by Pat Gray (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Goldenacre, by Philip Miller (Soho Crime) ARC; un+]
- Policing the City, by Didier Fassin, Frédéric Debomy, Jake Raynal (Other Press) [un+]
- Xstabeth, by David Keenan (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
- Rose Royal, by Nicolas Mathieu (Other Press) [un+]
- Robespierre, by Marcel Gauchet (Princeton University Press) [catalogue]
- Sour Grapes, by Dan Rhodes (Lightning Books) [requested]
- The Little Hotel, by Christina Stead (Henry Holt) [$2.80]
- Momus, by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [$15.16]
- And Chaos Died, by Joanna Russ (Ace) [$3.96]
- The Rose, by Charles L. Harness (Berkley) [$1.56]
- Synthajoy, by D.G.Compton (Ace) [$2.36]
- The Steel Crocodile, by D.G.Compton (Ace) [$3.16]
- A Usual Lunacy, by D.G.Compton (Ace) [$3.16]
- Le Tyran éternel, by Patrick Grainville (Points) [$3.60]
- The Wind Spirit, by Michel Tournier (Beacon Press) [$3.60]
- Tractatus Philosophico-Poeticus, by Signe Gjessing (lolli) [ARC; un+]
- A Postcard for Annie, by Ida Jessen (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Brenner, by Hermann Burger (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Brainspotting, by A J Lees (Notting Hill Editions) [un+]
- A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On, by Dung Kai-cheung (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Every Leaf a Hallelujah, by Ben Okri (Other Press) [un+]
- Astonishing the Gods, by Ben Okri (Other Press) [un+]
- The Marquise de Gange, by the Marquis de Sade (Oxford World's Classics) [catalogue]
- KMT: in the house of life, by Ayi Kwei Armah (Per Ankh Books) [e-book; library]
- The Trouble with Happiness, by Tove Ditlevsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Faces, by Tove Ditlevsen (Picador) [ARC; solicited]
- The Book of the Most Precious Substance, by Sara Gran (Dreamland Books) [requested]
- Pina, by Titaua Peu (Restless Books) [solicited]
- Hyperculture, by Byung-Chul Han (Polity) [solicited]
- Geography of an Adultery, by Agnès Riva (Other Press) [un+]
- Memories of Starobielsk, by Józef Czapski (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Band 3 Maximen III / Maxims III, by Kurt Gödel (De Gruyter) [requested]
- The Limits of Vision, by Robert Irwin (Dedalus) [un+]
- A Provincial Death, by Eoghan Smith (Dedalus) [un+]
- Gödel Meets Einstein, by Palle Yourgrau (Open Court) [$6.59]
- Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) [$4.29]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2022
[27 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- New Rome, by Paul Stephenson (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- The Visitors , by Jessi Jezewska Stevens (And Other Stories) ARC; un+]
- Hafez in Love, by Iraj Pezeshkzad (Syracuse University Press) requested]
- Three Prose Works, by Else Lasker-Schüler (Rixdorf Editions) [solicited]
- Lonely Hearts Killer, by Hoshino Tomoyuki (PM Press) [$4.99]
- Chilean Poet, by Alejandro Zambra (Viking) [requested]
- Trace and Aura, by Patrick Boucheron (Other Press) [un]
- Son of Svea, by Lena Andersson (Other Press) [un]
- On Theories, by William Demopoulos (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Distress, by Greg Egan (Harper Prism) [$3.99]
- The Belles Lettres Papers, by Charles Simmons (Willima Morrow) [$5.89]
- Dark Side of Japanese Business, by Ikkō Shimizu (M.E.Sharpe) [$4.59]
- The Grain of the Voice, by Roland Barthes (University of California Press) [$4.29]
- Stalin's Library, by Geoffrey Roberts (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- Rahel Varnhagen, by Hannah Arendt (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Dusk, by F.Sionil José (Modern Library) [$3.62]
- Learning the World, by Ken MacLeod (Tor) [$3.78]
- The Invitation, by Claude Simon (Dalkey Archive Press) [$7.87]
- The Godmother, by Hannelore Cayre (ECW Press) [$3.72]
- The Gasp, by Romain Gary978-1681375625978-1681375625 (G.P.Putnam's Sons) [$3.18]
- Lars Gyllensten, by Hans Isaksson (Twayne Publishers) [$3.18]
- God, by Francesca Stavrakopoulou (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- 41-Love, by Scarlett Thomas (Counterpoint Press) [requested]
- The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead Books) [requested]
- The Silentiary, by Antonio Di Benedetto (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Translating Myself and Others, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Princeton University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- I Was the President's Mistress!!, by Miguel Syjuco (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
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Books received/acquired in December, 2021
[32 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- Passersthrough, by Peter Rock (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- One in Me I Never Loved, by Carla Guelfenbein (Other Press) [un]
- Ulysses, by James Joyce (Other Press) [un+]
- Take Six, edited by Simon Deefholts and Kathryn Phillips-Miles (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Pages, by Hugo Hamilton (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; requested]
- The Subplot, by Megan Walsh (Columbia Global Reports) [ARC; requested]
- The Long Corner, by Alexander Maksik (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Birds of Verhovina, by Bodor Ádám (Jantar Publishing) [un+]
- Letters from Mom, by Julio Cortázar (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Lighted Burrow, by Max Blecher (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Moldy Strawberries, by Caio Fernando Abreu (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Wannsee, by Peter Longerich (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- Writings on Art & Poetical Theory, by Fernando Pessoa (Contra Mundum) [un+]
- New and Selected Stories, by Cristina Rivera Garza (Dorothy) ARC; un+]
- A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times, by Meron Hadero (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Almond in the Apricot, by Sara Goudarzi (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Salka Valka, by Halldór Laxness (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Yesterday, by Juan Emar (New Directions) [ ARC; solicited]
- An Inventory of Losses, by Judith Schalansky (New Directions) [requested]
- Passing for Human, by Jody Scott (Strange Particle Press) [$3.61]
- Sens-Plastique, by Malcolm de Chazal (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- A Hungarian Quartet, by various (Corvina) [$3.48]
- A Dog in Water, by Kiuchi Kazuhiro (Vertical) [$3.18]
- The Love of Strangers, by Nile Green (Princeton University Press) [$4.66]
- I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To, by Mikołaj Grynberg (The New Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Silent Parade, by Higashino Keigo (Minotaur Books) [requested]
- Palace of Flies, by Walter Kappacher (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Catalogue of a Private Life, by Najwa Bin Shatwan (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Runes Have Been Cast, by Robert Irwin (Dedalus) [un+]
- Termination Shock, by Neal Stephenson (William Morrow) [requested]
- distant transit, by Maja Haderlap (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2021
[22 books / 4 reviewed to date]
- The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories, by Andreas Karkavitsas (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- My Kingdom for a Guitar, by Kidi Bebey (Indiana University Press) [un+]
- Let No One Sleep, by Juan José Millás (Bellevue Literary Press) ARC; un+]
- The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions, by Venkatesh Narayanamurti and Jeffrey Y. Tsao (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Agents of Change, by Ben Laurence (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- It's Getting Dark, by Peter Stamm (Other Press) [un+]
- Home Reading Service, by Fabio Morábito (Other Press) [un+]
- The Last One, by Fatima Daas (Other Press) [un+]
- Refuse to Be Done, by Matt Bell (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- The Strudlhof Steps, by Heimito von Doderer (New York Review Books) [un+]
- In the Eye of the Wild, by Nastassja Martin (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Women Are Up to Something, by Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Savage Detectives Reread, by David Kurnick (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- In Plüschgewittern, by Wolfgang Herrndorf (Rowohlt) [€3.50]
- Die Belege des Michael Cetus, by Andreas Okopenko (Residenz Verlag) [€10.00]
- Meteoriten, by Andreas Okopenko (Ritter Verlag) [€6.00]
- Holzwege, by Martin Heidegger (Klostermann) [€22.60]
- »You give me fever«. Arno Schmidt. Seelandschaft mit Pocahontas, by Klaus Theweleit (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) [€34.90]
- Schreiben, by Carolin Amlinger (Suhrkamp) [€32.95]
- Konkurrenz, by Werner Kofler (Hanser) [€5.00]
- Zionoco, by Leon de Winter (Diogenes) [€3.00]
- Einübung in Katastrophen, by Dorothea Zeemann (Suhrkamp) [€2.50]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2021
[30 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- Mondnacht, by Stanisław Lem (Suhrkamp) [€6.99]
- Eine Melange für den Schah, by Sabina Naber (emons:) [€7.99]
- Die Familie Selicke, by Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf (Reclam) [€1.00]
- Waffenkarussell, by Erich Loest (Fischer) [€1.00]
- Bad Fucking, by Kurt Palm (Rowohlt) [€3.50]
- Franziska Linkerhand, by Brigitte Reimann (Aufbau) [€3.00]
- Go Back at Once, by Robert Aickman (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- A Beam of Sunlight in the Deep Forest, by Édouard Schuré (First To Knock) [solicited]
- You Can Be the Last Leaf, by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat (Milkweed Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Back to Japan, by Marc Petitjean (Other Press) [un]
- Gilgamesh, by Sophus Helle (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- Never, by Ken Follett (Viking) [solicited]
- The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) [requested]
- The Writer's Cats, by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions) [un+]
- Co-wives, Co-widows, by Adrienne Yabouza (Dedalus) [un+]
- City of Torment, by Daniela Hodrová (Jantar Publishing) [solicited]
- Dictionnaire Sade, by Christian Lacombe ( ) [$17.53]
- Silverview, by John Le Carré (Viking) [solicited]
- The Notes, by Ludwig Hohl (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- Disaster Mon Amour, by David Thomson (Yale University Press) [ARC; catalogue]
- The New Adventures of Helen, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Jack Ruby and the Origins of the Avant-Garde in Dallas, by Robert Trammell (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- Longing and Other Stories, by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Countries That Don't Exist, by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Eurasia without Borders, by Katerina Clark (Harvard University Press) catalogue]
- Gentleman Overboard, by Herbert Clyde Lewis (Boiler House Press) [solicited]
- The Quick and the Dead, by Máirtín Ó Cadhain (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Mr. Beethoven, by Paul Griffiths (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Born of No Woman, by Franck Bouysse (Other Press) [un+]
- Kanazawa, by David Joiner (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Lemon, by Kwon Yeo-sun (Other Press) [un+]
- A Long Way from Douala, by Max Lobe (Other Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2021
[30 books /16 reviewed to date]
- Be as Children, by Vladimir Sharov (Dedalus) [un+]
- Call Me Cassandra, by Marcial Gala (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- My Annihilation, by Nakamura Fuminori (Soho Press) [ARC; requested]
- Ahab (Sequels), by Pierre Senges (Contra Mundum Press) [solicited]
- The Mill, by Bess Brenck-Kalischer (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Rinkeldekinkel, ed. by Rob Schouten (Milkweed Editions) [un+]
- Bibliolepsy, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) ARC; solicited]
- The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon, by Fábio Zuker (Milkweed Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Klimat, by Thane Gustafson (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Borges and the Literary Marketplace, by Nora C. Benedict (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- Rummelplatz, by Werner Bräunig ( ) [$5.29]
- Quantum Implications, ed. by Basil Hiley and F. David Peat (Routledge) [$5.27]
- Last Resort, by Andrew Lipstein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un]
- Whisper, by Chang Yu-ko (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Everything and Less, by Mark McGurl (Verso Books) [requested]
- The Morning Star, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press) [requested]
- The State of Israel vs. the Jews, by Sylvain Cypel (Other Press) [un]
- The Open Road, by Jean Giono (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Ex Libris, by Matt Madden (Uncivilized) [ARC; requested]
- I Was a French Muslim, by Mokhtar Mokhtefi (Other Press) [un]
- Pity the Beast, by Robin McLean (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Malpertuis, by Jean Ray (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamín Labatut (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Wedding Party, by Liu Xinwu (Amazon Crossing) [ARC; solicited]
- Batlava Lake, by Adam Mars-Jones (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [un+]
- Hot Maroc, by Yassin Adnan (Syracuse University Press) [requested]
- Awake, by Harald Voetmann (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Night Train, by A.L.Snijders (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Battles in the Desert, by José Emilio Pacheco (New Directions) [un+]
- Little Elegies for Sister Satan, by Michael Palmer (New Directions) [ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2021
[48 books / 15 reviewed to date]
- Responses • Kafka's Prague, by Jiří Kolář (Twisted Spoon) [un+]
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Here in Our Auschwitz, by Tadeusz Borowski (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (Vintage Classics) [$2.99]
- I Hate Martin Amis et al., by Peter Barry (Roaring Forties Press) [$3.91]
- The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Beacon Press) [$4.28]
- Fairy Tales at Fifty, by Upamanyu Chatterjee (4th Estate (India)) [$2.99]
- Afternoon Men, by Anthony Powell (Little, Brown and Co.) [$2.99]
- Young Pushkin, by Yury Tynyanov (The Rookery Press/Overlook Press) [$3.43]
- The Magus, by John Fowles (Signet) [$1.00]
- Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination Paperback, by Edogawa Rampo (Tittle) [$1.00]
- The Incarnations, by Susan Barker (Touchstone) [$2.00]
- The Setting Sun, by Dazai Osamu (New Directions) [$2.00]
- Novels & Essays, by Frank Norris (Library of America) [$3.50]
- Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser (Library of America) [$3.50]
- Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors, by Quince Duncan (Palgrave Macmillan) [$2.50]
- The Western Contingent , by Jesse L. Anderson (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Pollak's Arm, by Hans von Trotha (New Vessel Press) [AR; un+]
- A Few Collectors, by Pierre Le-Tan (New Vessel Press) [AR; un+]
- The Transentients, by Sergio Missana (McPherson & Company) [ARC; solicited]
- The Angels of Perversity, by Remy de Gourmont (Dedalus) [un+]
- Monkey Man, by Ichikawa Takuji (Red Circle) [solicited]
- Ganbare ! Workshops on Dying, by Katarzyna Boni (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- In Concrete, by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- Daybook from Sheep Meadow, by Peter Dimock (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- A Story that Happens, by Dan O'Brien (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- In the Shadow of the Yali, by Suat Derviş (Other Press) [un+]
- An Impossible Love, by Christine Angot (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Milongas, by Edgardo Cozarinsky (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Rakes of the Old Court, by Mateiu Caragiale (Northwestern University Press) [solicited]
- Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden", by Kyokutei Bakin (Cornell University Press) [requested]
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, by Wole Soyinka (Pantheon) [ARC; requested]
- The Love Parade, by Sergio Pitol (Deep Vellum) [ARC; requested]
- Beauty Salon, by Mario Bellatin (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un]
- Cremation, by Rafael Chirbes (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- His Name Was Death, by Rafael Bernal (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Principles of Cerebral Mechanics, by Charles Cros (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, by Alain-Paul Mallard (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- A Heart Divided, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Griffin) [requested]
- The N'Gustro Affair, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
- Papa Hamlet, by Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf (Rixdorf Editions) [solicited]
- Kapo, by Aleksandar Tišma (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Here Is A Body, by Basma Abdel Aziz (Hoopoe) [solicitd]
- Where You Come From, by Saša Stanišić (Tin House) [ARC; solicited]
- I Wished, by Dennis Cooper (Soho Press) ARC; un]
- The Vanished Collection, by Pauline Baer de Perignon (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2021
[19 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- The House of Special Purpose, by John Boyne (Other Press) [un]
- The Dog of Tithwal, by Saadat Hasan Manto (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Forever Free, by Tracy Swinton Bailey (Other Press) [un]
- Pessoa, by Richard Zenith (Liveright) [requested]
- Anecdotes, by Heinrich von Kleist (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Beirut 2020: Diary of the Collapse, by Charif Majdalani (Other Press) [un+]
- Misericordia, by Benito Pérez Galdós (Dedalus) [un+]
- Bullet Train, by Isaka Kotaro (Overlook Press) [requested]
- Hind's Kidnap, by Joseph McElroy (Dzanc Books) [ARC; requested]
- The Die Is Cast, by Robert Desnos (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman, ed. Melanie Magidow (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Rider on the Rain, by Sébastien Japrisot (Gallic Books) [un+]
- The Sleeping Car Murders, by Sébastien Japrisot (Gallic Books) [-]
- Trap for Cinderella, by Sébastien Japrisot (Gallic Books) [-]
- The Dolls, by Ursula Scavenius (Lolli Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Philosophische Notizbücher (I and II), by Kurt Gödel (De Gruyter) [requested]
- A Guardian Angel Recalls, by Willem Frederik Hermans (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Burning the Books, by Richard Ovenden (Harvard University Press) [gift]
- The Atom Station, by Halldór Laxness (Vintage (UK)) [$3.18]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2021
[44 books / 13 reviewed to date]
- Dead Horse, by Walter Satterthwait (Dennis McMillan Publications) [$3.18]
- The Decameron, by Giovanni Boccaccio (Penguin Classics) [$3.69]
- What Entropy Means to Me, by George Alec Effinger (Bart) [$3.18]
- Sin, by F. Sionil José (Solidaridad Publishing House) [$3.40]
- A Different Distance, by Marilyn Hacker and Karthika Naïr (Milkweed) [ARC; un+]
- Ennemonde, by Jean Giono (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Pastor, by Hanne Ørstavik (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Blue-Skinned Gods, by SJ Sindu (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- Last Words on Earth, by Javier Serena (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- In the Shelter of the Pine, by Ōgimachi Machiko (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Monsieur Proust's Library, by Anka Muhlstein (Other Press) [un+]
- The Symphonies, by Andrei Bely (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Late Summer, by Luiz Ruffato (Other Press) [un+]
- The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins), by Brian Stableford (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence (Black Feast), by Brian Stableford (Dedalus) [un+]
- How High ? — That High, by Diane Williams (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- The Actual Star, by Monica Byrne (Harper Voyager) [ARC; solicited]
- Future War and the Defence of Europe, by John R. Allen, Frederick Ben Hodges, and Julian Lindley-French (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Stone Face, by William Gardner Smith (New York Review Books) [un]
- Disquiet, by Zülfü Livaneli (Other Press) [un]
- Life in the Cosmos, by Manasvi Lingam and Avi Loeb (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Three Dreams, by Jean Paul and Laurence Sterne (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Vagaries Malicieux, by Djuna Barnes (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- The Last Days of Immanuel Kant, by Thomas De Quincey (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Maria Wutz, by Jean Paul (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- If You Had Three Husbands, by Gertrude Stein (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- The Year of Our Love, by Caterina Bonvicini (Other Press) [un]
- Martin Eden, by Jack London (Penguin Classics) [$ 4.27]
- Suspects, by David Thomson (Vintage) [$4.43]
- Labor Relations, by Watanabe Kazuo (University Press of America) [$3.38]
- A Dance to the Music of Time (IV), by Anthony Powell (Little, Brown) [$4.53]
- Potsdamer Platz, by Curt Corrinth (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Suncranes and Other Stories, (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- The Life Written by Himself, by Archpriest Avvakum (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- No Touching, by Ketty Rouf (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Double Mother, by Michel Bussi (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Red Crosses, by Sasha Filipenko (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- A Single Rose, by Muriel Barbery (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Trust, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Suiza, by Bénédicte Belpois (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce, by Massimo Montanari (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Night Will Be Long, by Santiago Gamboa (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Solo Viola, by Antoine Volodine (University of Minnesota Press) [solicited]
- What You Can See from Here, by Mariana Leky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2021
[30 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- The Netanyahus, by Joshua Cohen (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Yasodhara and the Buddha, by Vanessa R. Sasson (Bloomsbury) [solicited]
- il miglioramento della mitteleuropa, by Oswald Wiener (il verri) [solicited]
- The Book of Travels, by Ḥannā Diyāb (NYU Press) [un+]
- A Physician on the Nile, by ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī (NYU Press) [un+]
- Top Graduate Zhang Xie (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Malefactor, by Robert Repino (Soho Press) [un]
- The Woman Next Door, by Mukōda Kuniko (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
- The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, by Yury Tynyanov (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The New World Written, by Maria Baranda (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Animals, by Hebe Uhart (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- B-Side Books, ed. by John Plotz (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Membranes, by Chi Ta-wei (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Disappearance of Jim Sullivan, by Tanguy Viel (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- The Dead Girls' Class Trip, by Anna Seghers (New York Review Books) [un+]
- New York, My Village, by Uwem Akpan (W.W.Norton) [ARC; solicited]
- Love and Sex in the Time of Plague, by Guido Ruggiero (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- The History of Akbar (7), by Abu'l-Fazl (Harvard University Press) [requested]
- China Room, by Sunjeev Sahota (Viking) [ARC; solicited]
- October Child, by Linda Boström Knausgård (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Barcelona Dreaming, by Rupert Thomson (Other Press) [un+]
- Faraway, by Lo Yi-Chin (Columbia University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Woman in the Purple Skirt, by Imamura Natsuko (Penguin Books) [ARC; requested]
- Clairvoyant of the Small, by Susan Bernofsky (Yale University Press) [un+]
- After the Sun, by Jonas Eika (Lolli) [ARC; un+]
- Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493, by Lorenz Böninger (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- Seasons of Purgatory, by Shahriar Mandanipour (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Love Like Water, Love Like Fire, by Mikhail Iossel (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Above the Rain, by Víctor del Árbol (Other Press) [un+]
- Second Place, by Rachel Cusk (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
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