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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 September, 2022
[28 books / 5 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 eter 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 / 9 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 / 7 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 / 6 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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Books received/acquired in April, 2022
[42 books / 9 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 / 19 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 / 11 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 / 5 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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