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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 July, 2025
[19 books / 2 reviewed to date]
- The Forbidden Experiment, by Roger Shattuck (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Inner Harbour, by Antoine Volodine (University of Minnesota Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Unspeakable Skipton, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Thereafter Johnnie, by Carolivia Herron (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady, by Dinah Brooke (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Stainless, by Todd Grimson (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Alpha and Omega, by Jane Ellen Harrison (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Bomarzo, by Manuel Mujica Lainez (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Snow Was Dirty, by Georges Simenon (Penguin Classics) [$3.00]
- The Hungry Angel, by Roger Vadim (Atheneum) [$5.00]
- Coleridge's Poems, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (A.L.Burt Company) [$5.00]
- Death and the Gardener, by Georgi Gospodinov (Liveright) [ARC; solicited]
- The Laboratory, by Rabindranath Tagore (Chowringhee Press) [solicited]
- Fish Letters, by Goderdzi Chokheli (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Highest Exam, by Ruixue Jia, Hongbin Li, and Claire Cousineau (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Chilco, by Daniela Catrileo (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Dealing with the Dead, by Alain Mabanckou (The New Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Decolonizing Language, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (The New Press) [un+]
- Time of Silence, by Luis Martín-Santos (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in June, 2025
[13 books / 5 reviewed to date]
- The Stone Door, by Leonora Carrington (New York Review Books) [un+]
- On the Calculation of Volume (III), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; solicited]
- Blowfish, by Jo Kyung-Ran (Astra House) [catalogue]
- The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant, by Liza Tully (Berkley) [solicited]
- Works of Love, by Søren Kierkegaard (Liveright) [solicited]
- Speaking in Tongues, by J.M.Coetzee and Mariana Dimópulos (Liveright) [requested]
- Stories, Tales, and Fables, by the Marquis de Sade (Contra Mundum) [solicited]
- The Accidental Garden, by Richard Mabey (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Iron Heel, by Jack London (Penguin Classics) [$5.75]
- Quantum Theory, by David Bohm (Dover) [$4.96]
- The Catherine Wheel, by Elizabeth Harrower (Text) [$4.30]
- Wilde West, by Walter Satterthwait (St.Martin's Press) [$4.28]
- Hidden Heroes (First Hill Books) [requested]
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Books received/acquired in May, 2025
[24 books/ 7 reviewed to date]
- The Girl with the Golden Eyes, by Honoré de Balzac (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Humanimality, by Rainer J. Hanshe (Contra Mundum) [un+]
- The Endless Week, by Laura Vazquez (Dorothy) [ARC; un+]
- Serge, by Yasmina Reza (Restless Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Brittle Age, by Donatella Di Pietrantonio (Europa Editions) [catalogue]
- New Story of the Stone, by Wu Jianren (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- The Questions of Milinda (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- 900 Conclusions, by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Art of Making Verses, by Gervase of Melkley (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Labyrinth of Fortune, by Juan de Mena (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The City, by Valerian Pidmohylnyi (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Orations, by Cicero (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Velleius Paterculus (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Politics, Philosophy, and Humor at the Byzantine Court, by Theodore II Laskaris (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Oldest Constitutional Question, by Richard Primus (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- Winds of the Night, by Joan Sales (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Brontë (Penguin Classics) [$1.37]
- Marshland, by Kaga Otohiko (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- Ambivalent Souls, by Robert E. Tanner (Poets & Traitors Press) [solicited]
- Twilight of Crooks, by Mwalimu Johnnie MacViban (Bakwa Books) [$1.37]
- The Book, by Stéphane Mallarmé (Exact Change) [$2.24]
- Tahl, by Jeremy Ingalls (University of Arizona Poetry Center) [$1.64]
- Nadja, by André Breton (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in April, 2025
[27 books/ 11 reviewed to date]
- Miaow, by Benito Pérez Galdós (New York Review Books) [un+]
- As If by Magic, by Edgard Telles Ribeiro (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Centroeuropa, by Vicente Luis Mora (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un+]
- Oromay, by Baalu Girma (Soho Press) [library]
- A Fictional Inquiry, by Daniele Del Giudice (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Ways of Paradise, by Peter Cornell (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [catalogue]
- The Old Man by the Sea, by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Vulture, by Phoebe Greenwood (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Book of I, by David Greig (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Living and the Rest, by José Eduardo Agualusa (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- One, None, and a Hundred Grand, by Luigi Pirandello (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Enuma Elish, ed. by Johannes Haubold et al. (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- Rosa Mistika, by Euphrase Kezilahabi (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Flower, by Ed Atkins (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [catalogue]
- The Innocent Libertine, by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Soldier's Hat, by Gabrielle-Sidonie Colette (Dedalus) [un+]
- Khosrow and Shirin, by Nezami Ganjavi (Penguin Classics) [catalogue]
- Ellmann's Joyce, by Zachary Leader (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Radio Treason, by Rebecca West (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Pilgrimage, by John Broderick (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The King of a Rainy Country, by Brigid Brophy (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Dazzling Paget Sisters, by Ariane Bankes (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Sakina's Kiss, by Vivek Shanbhag (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Vegas, by John Gregory Dunne (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones, by Charles Neider (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Vanishing Point, by Paul Theroux (Mariner Books) [library]
- Stories of the True, by Jeyamohan (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2025
[20 books/ 6 reviewed to date]
- Exophony, by Tawada Yoko (New Directions) [ARC; solicited]
- Happy New Years, by Maya Arad (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- Dreaming of Dead People, by Rosalind Belben (And Other Stories) [ARC; un+]
- let me tell you / let me go on, by Paul Griffiths (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Semishigure, by Fujisawa Shuhei (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Mrs. Lilienblum's Cloud Factory, by Iddo Gefen (Astra House) [solicited]
- People's Choice Literature, by Tom Comitta (Columbia University Press) [ARC; requested]
- The Red Wind Howls, by Tsering Döndrup (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- On Writers and Writing, by Henry James (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Henry James Comes Home, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Origins of Totalitarianism, by Hannah Arendt (Library of America) [requested]
- Red Sword, by Bora Chung (Honford Star) [ARC; requested]
- Border Lines, by Ros Franey (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Gowkaran Tree in the Middle of Our Kitchen, by Shokoofeh Azar (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Arsonist, by Egon Hostovský (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Ceilings, by Zuzana Brabcová (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- Sons and Daughters, by Chaim Grade (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Maria La Divina, by Jerome Charyn (Bellevue Literary Press) [ARC; un]
- Portraits of a Mother, by Endō Shūsaku (Yale University Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2025
[23 books/ 8 reviewed to date]
- Epic Events, by Sasha-Mae Eccleston (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- Attila, by Aliocha Coll (Open Letter) [un+]
- Attila, by Javier Serena (Open Letter) [un+]
- VZ, by Dmitry Bykov (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Six Irish Women Writers, ed. by Tanya Farrelly (Dedalus) [un+]
- Perfection, by Vincenzo Latronico (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Amateur, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Once and Future Spy, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- The Defection of A.J. Lewinter, by Robert Littell (Soho Press) [solicited]
- City of Fiction, by Yu Hua (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Holy Innocents, by Miguel Delibes (Yale University Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Peach Blossom Fan, by Kong Shangren (Oxford University Press) [requested]
- Command Performance, by Jean Echenoz (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Diabelli, by Hermann Burger (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Hashish Films of Customs Officer Henri Rousseau and Tatyana Joukof Shuffles the Cards, by Emil Szittya (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- 2025 Translator Triptych (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Malaparte, by Maurizio Serra (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Summer House, by Matsuie Masashi (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Trunk, by Kim Ryeo-ryeong (Hanover Square Press) [library]
- Herscht 07769, by Krasznahorkai László (New Directions) [library]
- First Love, by Shimamoto Rio (Honford Star) [solicited]
- The Proposal, by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star) [solicited]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2025
[5 books/ 3 reviewed to date]
- From Ted to Tom, by Edward Gorey (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Strange Pictures, by Uketsu (HarperVia) [requested]
- Only Smoke, by Juan José Millás (Bellevue Literary Press) ARC; un+]
- Saara, by Mbarek Ould Beyrouk (Dedalus) [un+]
- Taiwan Travelogue, by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ (Graywolf Press) [library]
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Books received/acquired in December, 2024
[17 books/ 7 reviewed to date]
- Patriot, by Alexei Navalny (Alfred A. Knpf) [gift]
- The Dedalus Book of Faroese Literature, (Dedalus) [un+]
- Ballerina, by Patrick Modiano (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Vanishing World, by Murata Sayaka (Grove Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Lion, by Sonya Walger (New York Review Books) [un]
- Old Kiln, by Jia Pingwa (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- My Sister's Red Shirt, by Tie Ning (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- Tibetan Sky, by Ning Ken (Sinoist) [ARC; solicited]
- The Proof of My Innocence, by Jonathan Coe (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Your Steps on the Stairs, by Antonio Muñoz Molina (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Suicides, by Antonio Di Benedetto (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Philosophy of Translation, by Damion Searls (Yale University Press) [requested]
- A Perfect Day to Be Alone, by Aoyama Nanae (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Bewitched Bourgeois, by Dino Buzzati (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Down and Out in Drohobych, by Ivan Franko (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Food Block, by Alexei Ivanov (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Glorious Exploits, by Ferdia Lennon (Henry Holt and Co.) [library]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2024
[26 books/ 8 reviewed to date]
- Mixed Signals, by Rebecca Charbonneau (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- Matter, by Guido Tonelli (Polity) [ARC; solicited]
- The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The Best Enemy, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Context Collapse, by Ryan Ruby (Seven Stories Press) [requested]
- End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland, by Murakami Haruki (Everyman's Library) [requested]
- The Book Lovers, by Steve Aylett (Snowbooks) [solicited]
- Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- The Colony, by Annika Norlin (The Colony) [ARC; solicited]
- A Hundred Years and a Day, by Shibasaki Tomoka (Stone Bridge Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Study, by Andrew Hui (Princeton University Press) [un+]
- Mother River, by Can Xue (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Perspective(s), by Laurent Binet (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Bone Into Stone, by Jhumpa Lahiri (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Flight, by Michael Finke (Sylph Editions) [un+]
- Naples 1925, by Martin Mittelmeier (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Village of Ben Suc, by Jonathan Schell (New York Review Books) [un]
- No One Will Know You Tomorrow, by Najwan Darwish (Yale University Press) [un]
- Heaven and Hell, by Jón Kalman Stefánsson (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- Seeing Further, by Esther Kinsky (New York Review Books) [un+]
- At the Louvre, ed. by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, and Donatien Grau (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Set Change, by Yuri Andrukhovych (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Running Flame, by Fang Fang (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Einstein and the Quantum Revolutions, by Alain Aspect (University of Chicago Press) [requested]
- On Leaders and Tyrants, by Poggio Bracciolini, Guarino of Verona, and Pietro del Monte (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin Press) [library]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2024
[21 books/ 12 reviewed to date]
- The City and its Uncertain Walls, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- Soft Burial, by Fang Fang (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Dinner Pieces (II), by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- Cold Enough For Snow, by Jessica Au (New Directions) [library]
- The Place of Shells, by Ishizawa Mai (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Old Soul, by Susan Barker (G.P. Putnam's Sons) [ARC; requested]
- Elephant Herd, by Zhang Guixing (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Dogs and Wolves, by Hervé Le Corre (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Mysticism, by Simon Critchley (New York Review Books) [un]
- Annihilation, by Michel Houellebecq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [requested]
- Dinner Pieces (I), by Leon Battista Alberti (Harvard University Press) [solicited]
- With Their Hearts in Their Boots, by Jean-Pierre Martinet (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- There Lives a Young Girl in Me Who Will Not Die, by Tove Ditlevsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Adventures of Lady Egeria, by W. C. (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- The Failure, by Giovanni Papini (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Kruitzner, by Harriet Lee (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- Runaway Horses, by Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Magpie at Night, by Li Qingzhao (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- The Picture Not Taken, by Benjamin Swett (New York Review Books) [un]
- The Third Realm, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Penguin Press) [requested]
- Waiting for the Fear, by Oğuz Atay (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2024
[13 books/ 3 reviewed to date]
- En Route, by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) [un+]
- Of Beasts and Fowls, by Pilar Adón (Open Letter) [un+]
- Melvill, by Rodrigo Fresán (Open Letter) [un+]
- Documentary Poetry, by Heimrad Bäcker (Winter Editions) [solicited]
- The Oceans of Cruelty, by Douglas J. Penick (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Empusium, by Olga Tokarczuk (Riverhead) [requested]
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers (Bantam) [$1.00]
- Catullus, ed. by C.J.Fordyce (Oxford University Press) [$3.00]
- Complete Poetry, by Oscar Wilde (Oxford World's Classics) [$3.00]
- The Poems of John Keats, ed. by Miriam Allott (Longman/Norton) [$3.00]
- The House of the Edrisis (I), by Ghazaleh Alizadeh (Syracuse University Press) [ARC; un+]
- Tchanaze, by Carlos Paradona Rufino Roque (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Rest is Silence, by Augusto Monterroso (New York Review Books) [ARC; requested]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2024
[27 books/ 13 reviewed to date]
- Star 111, by Lutz Seiler (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Sir Charles Grandison, by Samuel Richardson (Oxford World's Classics) [$16.00]
- Reconstruction of the Poet, by Zbigniew Herbert (Ecco) [requested]
- Vacated Landscape, by Jean Lahougue (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die, by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (John Murray) [$3.42]
- Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, by Paul Muldoon (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [solicited]
- Claret, Sandwiches and Sin, by Madelaine Duke (Curtis Books) [$3.95]
- This Business Of Bomfog, by Madelaine Duke (Curtis Books) [$4.50]
- Perversity, by Francis Carco (Black Lizard Books) [$3.95]
- Dagger of the Mind, by Kenneth Fearing (Ballantine Books) [$9.95]
- Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress, by Frances Burney (Oxford World's Classics) [$10.95]
- Antigone. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus, by Sophocles (Harvard University Press) [$13.02]
- Oresteia, by Aeschylus (Harvard University Press) [$20.16]
- Cultural Capital, by John Guillory (University of Chicago Press) [$7.31]
- Harlequin Butterfly, by EnJoe Toh (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Mysterious Setting, by Kazushige Abe (Pushkin Press) [requested]
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird, by Kawakami Hiromi (Soft Skull) [solicited]
- Eclipse, by Keiichiro Hirano (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Night of Baba Yaga, by Otani Akira (Soho Press) [library]
- The Seventh Veil of Salome, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey) [solicited]
- I Am Alien to Life, by Djuna Barnes (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Constant Reader, by Dorothy Parker (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- New York Sketches, by E.B.White (McNally Editions) [ARC; un+]
- The Little Sparrow Murders, by Yokomizo Seishi (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- The Red House Mystery, by A.A. Milne (Pushkin Press) [un+]
- A Prague Flâneur, by Vítězslav Nezval (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
- The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks, by Agnieszka Taborska (Twisted Spoon Press) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in July, 2024
[18 books/ 9 reviewed to date]
- Childish Literature, by Alejandro Zambra (Penguin Books) [ARC; catalogue]
- Ugliness, by Moshtari Hilal (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- On the Calculation of Volume (I), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- On the Calculation of Volume (II), by Solvej Balle (New Directions) [ARC; requested]
- Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return, by Martin Riker (Coffee House Press) [$3.00]
- Precipice, by Robert Harris (Harper) [ARC; requested]
- Fragments of a Paradise, by Jean Giono (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Lily in the Valley, by Honoré de Balzac (New York Review Books) [un+]
- New Invention and the Latest Innovations, by Gaston de Pawlowski (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- The Murmuration, by Carlos Labbé (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Princess Casamassima, by Henry James (Penguin Classics) [$3.00]
- Last Nights of Paris, by Philippe Soupault (Full Court Press) [$3.00]
- Sister Deborah, by Scholastique Mukasonga (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- High Solitude, by Léon-Paul Fargue (Contra Mundum Press) [un+]
- Dozakhama, by Rabisankar Bal (Vintage Books (India)) [$3.42]
- The Divide, by Alan Ayckbourn (Drugstore Indian Press) [$8.61]
- I, Vampire, by Jody Scott (Strange Particle Press) [$3.42]
- Twenty Years After, by Alexandre Dumas (Oxford World's Classics) [$5.08]
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