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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
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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 August, 2021
[3 books / 0 reviewed to date]
- 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 / 5 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 / 6 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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Books received/acquired in April, 2021
[21 books / 6 reviewed to date]
- Good Behaviour, by Molly Keane (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Critical Case of a Man Called K, by Aziz Mohammed (Hoopoe) [requested]
- Brotherhood, by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Europa Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- The Heart Remembers, by Jan-Philipp Sendker (Other Press) [un+]
- Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, by Thomas Mann (New York Review Books) [un+]
- To the Warm Horizon, by Choi Jin-young (Honford Star) [solicited]
- Summer Fun, by Jeanne Thornton (Soho Press) [un]
- Meeting in Positano, by Goliarda Sapienza (Other Press) [un+]
- Adorable, by Ida Marie Hede (Lolli) [un+]
- Public Reading Followed by Discussion, by Danielle Mémoire (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- The Voice Over, by Maria Stepanova (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- The Last Twist of the Knife, by João Almino (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Certain Artists, by J.-K. Huysmans (Dedalus) [un+]
- The White Dominican, by Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus) [un+]
- Tears of Amber, by Sofía Segovia (AmazonCrossing) [un]
- Life after Gravity, by Patricia Fara (Oxford University Press) [catalogue]
- The Art of Losing, by Alice Zeniter (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- First Person Singular, by Murakami Haruki (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- A Sunday in Ville-d'Avray, by Dominique Barbéris (Other Press) [un+]
- Metropolitan Stories, by Christine Coulson (Other Press) [un+]
- The Beginners, by Anne Serre (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in March, 2021
[36 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- The Tool & the Butterflies, by Dmitry Lipskerov (Deep Vellum) [catalogue]
- Mrs. Murakami's Garden, by Mario Bellatin (Deep Vellum) [catalogue]
- Notes from Childhood, by Norah Lange (And Other Stories) [solicited]
- The Luminous Novel, by Mario Levrero (And Other Stories) [ARC; solicited]
- Foucault in Warsaw, by Remigiusz Ryziński (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- White Shadow, by Roy Jacobsen (Biblioasis) [ARC; un+]
- Many Mahābhāratas, ed. by Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai (SUNY Press) [requested]
- Lost Souls, by Honoré de Balzac (University of Minnesota Press) [un+]
- Donadieu's Will, by Georges Simenon (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) [$3.77]
- 2312, by Kim Stanley Robinson (Orbit) [$3.45]
- The Sword of Justice, by Leif G.W. Persson (Vintage) [$3.38]
- The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, by Henry Handel Richardson (The Press of the Readers Club) [$3.38]
- The Counterlife, by Philip Roth (Penguin) [$3.59]
- The Craft of Poetry, by Lucy Newlyn (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- The Pleasure Marriage, by Tahar Ben Jelloun (Northwestern University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- Mebet, by Alexander Grigorenko (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- Le Fanu's Angel, by Brian Keogh (Dedalus) [un+]
- Midnight, Water City, by Chris McKinney (Soho Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Absolutist, by John Boyne (Other Press) [un]
- The Magic Mirror of Literary Translation, by Eric Sellin (Syracuse University Press) [solicited]
- The Nation of Plants, by Stefano Mancuso (Other Press) [un+]
- Samak the Ayyar (Columbia University Press) [ARC; solicited]
- The Measure of Time, by Gianrico Carofiglio (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- How to Betray Your Country, by James Wolff (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- The Complete Poems of San Juan de la Cruz (Milkweed) [un+]
- La Madre, by Grazia Deledda (Dedalus) [un+]
- Antiquities, by Cynthia Ozick (Alfred A. Knopf) [e-book; requested]
- Getting It in the Head, by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) [un]
- Crowe's Requiem, by Mike McCormack (Soho Press) [un]
- The Slaughterman's Daughter, by Yaniv Iczkovits (Schocken Books) [requested]
- Distant Fathers, by Marina Jarre (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- The City of Good Death, by Priyanka Champaneri (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- Chasing the Dream, by Liane de Pougy (Dedalus) [un+]
- A Woman's Affair, by Liane de Pougy (Dedalus) [un+]
- Mona, by Pola Oloixarac (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- Finding the Raga, by Amit Chaudhuri (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in February, 2021
[44 books / 22 reviewed to date]
- Lolita in the Afterlife, ed. by Jenny Minton Quigley (Vintage) [requested]
- Outgoing Vessel, by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Action Books) [un+]
- Journey to the Edge of Reason, by Stephen Budiansky (W.W.Norton) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat, by Sergi Pàmies (Other Press) [un+]
- Sevastopol, by Emilio Fraia (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Divorce, by César Aira (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Voices in the Evening, by Natalia Ginzburg (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Novellen, by Paul Heyse (Manesse) [$4.79]
- Noli Me Tangere, by José Rizal (Penguin Classics) [$5.24]
- The Ladies' Paradise, by Émile Zola (Oxford University Press) [$3.77]
- Roger Martin du Gard and Maumort, by Benjamin Franklin Martin (Northern Illinois University Press) [$5.72]
- Voices of the Lost, by Hoda Barakat (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Bees on the Snow, by Saulius Šaltenis (Pica Pica Press) [un+]
- Tante Eva, by Paula Bomer (Soho Press) [un]
- Ciuleandra, by Liviu Rebreanu (Cadmus Press) [ARC; un+]
- Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro (Alfred A. Knopf) [ARC; requested]
- The Woman from Uruguay, by Pedro Mairal (Bloomsbury) [ARC; solicited]
- Who They Was, by Gabriel Krauze (Bloomsbury) [ARC; solicited]
- The Leave-Takers, by Steven Wingate (University of Nebraska Press) [un]
- The Adventures and Misadventures of the Extraordinary and Admirable Joan Orpi, Conquistador and Founder of New Catalonia, by Max Besora (Open Letter) [requested]
- The Regal Lemon Tree, by Juan José Saer (Open Letter) [requested]
- Eleven Sooty Dreams, by Manuela Draeger (Open Letter) [un+]
- Among the Hedges, by Sara Mesa (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- Woman in the Plural, by Vítězslav Nezval (Twisted Sppoon Press) [un+]
- Zabor, or The Psalms, by Kamel Daoud (Other Press) [un+]
- Layli and Majnun, by Nezami Ganjavi (Penguin Classics) [requested]
- The Mirror of My Heart, ed. by Dick Davis (Penguin Classics) [requested]
- J R, by William Gaddis (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Dissipatio H.G., by Guido Morselli (New York Review Books) [requested]
- Hurdy Gurdy, by Christopher Wilson (Faber & Faber) [solicited]
- Tower, by Bae Myung-hoon (Honford Star) [requested]
- The Orphanage, by Serhiy Zhadan (Yale University Press) [catalogue]
- King Kong Theory, by Virginie Despentes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; requested]
- Vernon Subutex 3, by Virginie Despentes (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; requested]
- Nives, by Sacha Naspini (Europa Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Thirst, by Amélie Nothomb (Europa Editions) [ARC; requested]
- Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami (Europa Editions) [ARC; requested]
- Monsieur de Phocas, by Jean Lorrain (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, by Luigi Pirandello (Dedalus) [un+]
- A Shock, by Keith Ridgway (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- In the Company of Men, by Véronique Tadjo (Other Press) [un+]
- Love's Shadow, by Paul A. Bové (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- An I-Novel, by Mizumura Minae (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Acrobat, by Nabaneeta Dev Sen (Archipelago Books) ARC; un+]
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Books received/acquired in January, 2021
[33 books / 14 reviewed to date]
- The Posthumous Works of Thomas Pilaster, by Éric Chevillard (Sublunary Editions) [ARC: un+]
- Two Stories, by Osvaldo Lamborghini (Sublunary Editions) [un+]
- A Cage for Every Child, by S. D. Chrostowska (Sublunary Editions) [ARC; un+]
- Under the Wave at Waimea, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) [ARC; requested]
- Kin, by Miljenko Jergović (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Cowboy Graves, by Roberto Bolaño (Penguin Press) [requested]
- On Time and Water, by Andri Snær Magnason (Open Letter) [un+]
- Winter in Sokcho, by Elisa Shua Dusapin (Open Letter) [un+]
- DAVE, by Raphaela Edelbauer (Klett-Cotta) [e-book; requested]
- Nuestra América, by Claudio Lomnitz (Other Press) [un]
- The Loeb Classical Library and Its Progeny, ed. by Jeffrey Henderson and Richard F. Thomas (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Roundabout of Death, by Faysal Khartash (New Vessel Press) [ARC; un+]
- To Cook a Bear, by Mikael Niemi (Penguin Books) [solicited]
- The Foreign Girls, by Sergio Olguín (Bitter Lemon Press) [un+]
- Munchausen and Clarissa, by Paul Scheerbart (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Touring the Land of the Dead, by Kashimada Maki (Europa Editions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Aquarium, by Yaara Shehori (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Studies of Silhouettes, by Pierre Senges (Sublunary Editions) [-]
- Falstaff: Apotheosis, by Pierre Senges (Sublunary Editions) [-]
- die verbesserung von mitteleuropa, by Oswald Wiener (Jung und Jung) [€25.30]
- Fragments of an Infinite Memory, by Maël Renouard (New York Review Books) [un+]
- How to Order the Universe, by María José Ferrada (Tin House) [ARC; solicited]
- Stories with Pictures, by Antonio Tabucchi (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Lady Joker (I), by Takamura Kaoru (Soho Crime) [ARC; requested]
- Germs , by Richard Wollheim (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Bina, by Anakana Schofield (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Live; live; live , by Jonathan Buckley (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Where Was the Angel Going ?, by Jan Balaban (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Lawyer from Lychakiv Street, by Andriy Kokotiukha (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- GRM, by Sibylle Berg (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [€14.16]
- History of Rome (VII: 26–27), by Livy (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- On Temperaments, by Galen (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Satyricon, by Petronius (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
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Books received/acquired in December, 2020
[16 books / 7 reviewed to date]
- Ulysses by Numbers, by Eric Bulson (Columbia University Press) [solicited]
- Marshlands, by André Gide (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Things We've Seen, by Agustín Fernández Mallo (Fitzcarraldo Editions) [ARC; un+]
- I Just Wanted to Save My Family, by Stéphan Pélissier (Other Press) [un]
- Manuscrit zéro, by Ogawa Yôko (Babel) [€7,89]
- Brief Lives of Idiots, by Ermanno Cavazzoni (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- Volume III, by Aristophanes (Harvard University Press) [$12.83]
- Lobster Life, by Erik Fosnes Hansen (Norvik Press) [requested]
- Shikasta, by Doris Lessing (Grafton Books) [$6.54]
- The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five, by Doris Lessing (Alfred A. Knopf) [$4.29]
- The Sirian Experiments, by Doris Lessing (Alfred A. Knopf) [$3.58]
- The Making of the Representative for Planet 8, by Doris Lessing (Granada) [$3.18]
- The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire, by Doris Lessing (Granada) [$3.18]
- We Who Are About To ..., by Joanna Russ (The Women's Press) [$3.18]
- The Golden Child, by Penelope Fitzgerald (Mariner Books) [$3.25]
- The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in November, 2020
[35 books / 11 reviewed to date]
- The Year the River Froze Twice, by Inga Ābele (Norvik Press) [solicited]
- Venice Noir, by Isabella Panfido (Dedalus) [un+]
- Lurkers, by Sandi Tan (Soho Press) [ARC; un]
- Journal (1966-1974), by Jean-Patrick Manchette (Folio) [€12.44]
- Madman Bovary, by Claro (Verticales) [€3.60]
- Risikogesellschaft, by Ulrich Beck (Suhrkamp) [€15.18]
- Dem Unerreichbaren auf der Spur, by Peter Weiss (Verbrecher Verlag) [€24,29]
- Jagende Rosse / Der schwarze Vorhang, by Alfred Döblin (Fischer Klassik) [€13,14]
- Elastic, by Johanne Bille (lolli) [requested]
- New Passengers, by Tine Høeg (lolli) [requested]
- The Employees, by Olga Ravn (lolli) [requested]
- Marble, by Amalie Smith (lolli) [requested]
- Tools for Extinction, ed. by Denise Rose Hansen (lolli) [requested]
- Red Ants, by Pergentino José (Deep Vellum) [un+]
- Farthest South, by Ethan Rutherford (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un+]
- You Said It, by Connie Palmen (AmazonCrossing) [un+]
- Proustian Uncertainties, by Saul Friedländer (Other Press) [un+]
- The Bright Book of Life, by Harold Bloom (Alfred A. Knopf) [requested]
- The Delivery, by Peter Mendelsund (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Gulliver's Voyage to Phantomimia, by Volter Kilpi (Zeta Books) [requested]
- Ferdinand, The Man with the Kind Heart, by Irmgard Keun (Other Press) [un+]
- Theater Symptoms, by Robert Musil (Contra Mundum Press) [requested]
- Dialogues (II), by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Dialogues (III), by Giovanni Gioviano Pontano (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Peach Blossom Paradise, by Ge Fei (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Chapter On Love, by Szentkuthy Miklós (Contra Mundum Press) [solicited]
- The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) [un+]
- I'm Staying Here, by Marco Balzano (Other Press) [un+]
- The Orlando Trilogy, by Isabel Colegate (Penguin Books) [$1.97]
- Green Ice, by Raoul Whitfield (Avon) [$1.97]
- Down the Rabbit Hole, by Peter Abrahams (HarperTrophy) [$1.97]
- Game of the Gods, by Paolo Maurensig (World Editions) [ARC; solicited]
- Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, by Camille Laurens (Other Press) [un+]
- Bestseller, by Beka Adamashvili (Dedalus) [un+]
- The Money Plot, by Frederick Kaufman (Other Press) [un]
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Books received/acquired in October, 2020
[46 books / 18 reviewed to date]
- Correspondence 1923-1966, by Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer (Polity) [solicited]
- The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [requested]
- The Way Out, by Ricardo Piglia (Restless Books) [requested]
- Veilchenfeld, by Gert Hofmann (Luchterhand) [$3.39]
- Novels 1920–1925, by John Dos Passos (Library of America) [$6.12]
- Jack the Lady Killer, by H.R.F.Keating (Poisoned Pen Press) [$3.72]
- The Garden Next Door, by José Donoso (Grove Press) [$3.88]
- Master of the Uncanny, by Okamoto Kidō (Kurodahan Press) [un+]
- Everything Like Before, by Kjell Askildsen (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- A History of Modern Chinese Popular Literature, by Fan Boqun (Cambridge University Press) [e-book; requested]
- The Resurrection of Homer in Imperial Greek Epic, by Emma Greensmith (Cambridge University Press) [e-book; requested]
- Bug, by Giacomo Sartori (Restless Books) [ARC; un+]
- In the Land of the Cyclops, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Perfect Nine, by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (The New Press) [requested]
- The Lehman Trilogy, by Stefano Massini (HarperVia) [e-book; library]
- This Could Have Become Ramayan Chamar's Tale: Two Anti-Novels, by Subimal Misra (Open Letter Books) [requested]
- Stories I Forgot to Tell You, by Dorothy Gallagher (New York Review Books) [un]
- Annette, ein Heldinnenepos, by Anne Weber (Matthes & Seitz Berlin) [e-book; requested]
- Divine Justice, by Joanne Hichens (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The Theory of Flight, by Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The Farm, by Max Annas (Catalyst Press) [un+]
- Outside the Lines, by Ameera Patelx (Catalyst Press) [un]
- The War of the Poor, by Éric Vuillard (Other Press) [un+]
- The Soviet Writers' Union and Its Leaders, by Carol Any (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- The Constant Rabbit, by Jasper Fforde (Viking) [requested]
- The Medusa Child, by Sylvie Germain (Dedalus) [un+]
- Kracauer, by Jörg Später (Polity) [solicited]
- If You Kept a Record of Sins, by Andrea Bajani (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- God in Gotham, by Jon Butler (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- The Complete Dramatic Works of Tang Xianzu, by Tang Xianzu (Bloomsbury) [$25.23]
- Earthlings, by Murata Sayaka (Grove Press) [requested]
- Still Life, by Zoë Wicomb (The New Press) [solicited]
- The Dark Library, by Cyrille Martinez (Coach House Books) [solicited]
- Menander I, by Menander (Harvard University Press) [$9.58]
- Innerfern, by Gerhard Köpf (Collection S. Fischer) [$3.18]
- A Light Comedy, by Eduardo Mendoza(Vintage) [$3.98]
- World Soul, by Mikhail Emtsev and Eremei Parnov (Collier Books) [$4.78]
- A Dandy in Aspic, by Derek Marlowe (G.P.Putnam's Sons) [$3.18]
- The Three-Inch Golden Lotus, by Feng Jicai (University of Hawaii Press) [$3.18]
- Fires that Destroy, by Harry Whittington (Black Lizard) [$3.95]
- Web of Murder, by Harry Whittington (Black Lizard) [$3.95]
- Somebody's Sister, by Derek Marlowe (Warner Books) [$2.95]
- Echoes of Celandine, by Derek Marlowe (Pyramid Books) [$2.95]
- Hope of Heaven, by John O'Hara (Bantam Books) [$3.50]
- Beneath the Waters, by Oswaldo França, Jr. (Available Press) [$2.50]
- The Last Libertines, by Benedetta Craveri (New York Review Books) [un+]
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Books received/acquired in September, 2020
[37 books / 10 reviewed to date]
- The Bell in the Lake, by Lars Mytting (The Overlook Press) [solicited]
- Allegria, by Giuseppe Ungaretti (Archipelago Books) [un+]
- The Copenhagen Trilogy, by Tove Ditlevsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; un+]
- Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Matsuda Aoko (Soft Skull) [requested]
- The Man Who Saw Everything, by Deborah Levy (Bloomsbury) [requested]
- A Snake Lies Waiting, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Griffin) [requested ]
- The Lute, by Kao Ming (Columbia University Press) [$7.69]
- The Hopkins Manuscript, by R.C.Sherriff (The Macmillan Company) [$4.69]
- The Age of Skin, by Dubravka Ugresic (Open Letter) [un+]
- The Clerk, by Guillermo Saccomanno (Open Letter) [un+]
- Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, by Alexander Radishchev (Columbia University Press) [un+]
- Why Didn't We Riot ?, by Issac J. Bailey (Other Press) [un]
- Salt Water, by Josep Pla (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- The Disaster Tourist, by Yun Ko-Eun (Counterpoint Press) [requested]
- The Wind Traveler, by Alonso Cueto (University of Texas Press) [un+]
- The Turncoat, by Siegfried Lenz (Other Press) [un+]
- Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, by Nikolai Leskov (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Resistance, by Samit Basu (Titan Books) [$2.48]
- Dixie, by Julien Green (Fayard) [$2.48]
- On s'y fera, by Zoya Pirzad (Zulma) [$2.48]
- The Harafish, by Naguib Mahfouz (Anchor) [$2.48]
- Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen (Avon) [$2.48]
- The Luminaries, by Eleanor Catton (Little, Brown) [$2.98]
- Olanda, by Rafał Wojasiński (Glagoslav) [solicited]
- The Last Interview, by Eshkol Nevo (Other Press) [ARC; solicited]
- That Light, All at Once, by Jean-Paul de Dadelsen (Yale University Press) [un+]
- Balzac's Lives, by Peter Brooks (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Stone-Garland, tr. by Dan Beachy-Quick (Milkweed Editions) [un+]
- The Beast, and Other Tales, by Jóusè d'Arbaud (Northwestern University Press) [solicited]
- Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links, by Helena Adler (Jung und Jung) [e-book; requested]
- Putzt euch, tanzt, lacht, by Karin Peschka (Otto Müller Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Fremdes Licht, by Michael Stavarič (Luchterhand) [e-book; requested]
- Doppelte Spur, by Ilija Trojanow (S.Fischer) [e-book; requested]
- Die Forelle, by Leander Fischer (Wallstein Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- Das Palais muss brennen, by Mercedes Spannagel (Kiepenheuer & Witsch) [e-book; requested]
- One Left, by Kim Soom (University of Washington Press) [solicited]
- The Memory Monster, by Yishai Sarid (Restless Books) [solicited]
- Nathalie Sarraute, by Ann Jefferson (Princeton University Press) [solicited]
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Books received/acquired in August, 2020
[32 books / 16 reviewed to date]
- Kraft, by Jonas Lüscher (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [ARC; solicited]
- Self-Portrait with Russian Piano, by Wolf Wondratschek (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) [un+]
- The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma, by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz (Northwestern University Press) [requested]
- Straight from the Horse's Mouth, by Meryem Alaoui (Other Press) [un+]
- The Sky Weeps for Me, by Sergio Ramírez (McPherson & Company) [un+]
- The Sorrow of Miles Franklin beneath Mount Kajmakčalan, by Ivan Čapovski (Cadmus Press) [un+]
- Death in a Bookstore, by Augusto De Angelis (Kazabo Publishing) [e-book; solicited]
- The Silent Executioner, by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre (Ballantine Books) [$2.99]
- A.O.Barnabooth: His Diary, by Valery Larbaud (Quartet) [$3.36]
- Histoire de l'amour et de la haine, by Charles Dantzig (Grasset) [$2.99]
- Think of a Number, by Anders Bodelsen (Harper & Row) [$3.74]
- IXE-13, by Pierre Saurel (Quinze) [$2.99]
- Variations on Night and Day, by 'Abd Al-Rahman Munif (Pantheon Books) [$2.99]
- Marlene, by Philippe Djian (Other Press) [un+]
- Jokerman, by Stefan Kutzenberger (Berlin Verlag) [e-book; requested]
- The Death of Comrade President, by Alain Mabanckou (The New Press) [requested]
- Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury) [catalogue]
- The Lost Writings, by Franz Kafka (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Les Diaboliques, by Barbey D'Aurevilly (Dedalus Books) [un+]
- Suppose a Sentence, by Brian Dillon (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Monastery, by Zakhar Prilepin (Glagoslav Publications) [solicited]
- Neutron Stars, by Katia Moskvitch (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Spark, by Matayoshi Naoki (Pushkin Press) [e-book; requested]
- Law and Leviathan, by Cass R. Sunstein and Adrian Vermeule (Harvard University Press) [catalogue]
- Red Dust, by Yoss (Restless Books) [requested]
- Ascent to Glory, by Álvaro Santana-Acuña (Columbia University Press) [requested]
- Stories for the Years, by Luigi Pirandello (Yale University Press) [solicited]
- Café Europa Revisited, by Slavenka Drakulić (Penguin Books) [e-book; solicited]
- The Hole, by Oyamada Hiroko (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Pigeons on the Grass, by Wolfgang Koeppen (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- The Caretaker, by Doon Arbus (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Not a Novel, by Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Box Hill, by Adam Mars-Jones (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
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