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• Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk's monumental The Books of Jacob, now also out in the US
  
  
• Nobel laureate Claude Simon's 1987 novel, The Invitation
  
  
• Sébastien Japrisot's 1992 novel, Rider on the Rain, recently re-issued by Gallic Books
  
  
• The second volume collecting Kurt Gödel's notebooks, Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 2 - Zeiteinteilung (Maximen) I und II / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 2: Time Management (Maxims) I and II
  
  
• Early works by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Longing and Other Stories, now available in English
  
  
• Austin Tappan Wright's classic novel of Islandia
  
  
• Megan Walsh on What China Is Reading and Why It Matters, in The Subplot
  
  
• The latest from Nakamura Fuminori, My Annihilation
  
  
• Peter Longerich on The Road to the Final Solution, in Wannsee
  
  
• Manasvi Lingam and Avi Loeb explore Life in the Cosmos: From Biosignatures to Technosignatures
  
  
• Written in 1975, Robert Aickman's 1920s novel Go Back at Once is only now readily available, from And Other Stories
  
  
• Gina Apostol's 1997 debut, Bibliolepsy, finally available in a US edition
  
  
• Chang Yu-Ko's supernatural novel, Whisper
  
  
• Rafael Chirbes' Cremation, now also in English, from New Directions
  
  
• Judith Schalansky's Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will
  
  
• The latest installment in Higashino Keigo's 'Detective Galileo'-series, Silent Parade
  
  
• A novel from the Central African Republic -- Adrienne Yabouza's Co-wives, Co-widows
  
  
• Liu Xinwu's 1985 Mao Dun Prize-winning novel, The Wedding Party
  
  
• Neal Stephenson's latest, Termination Shock
  
  
• Nora C. Benedict looks at How Editorial Practices Shaped Cosmopolitan Reading, in Borges and the Literary Marketplace
  
  
• Fatima Daas' (German-)Prize for Contemporary Literature in Translation-winning The Last One
  
  
• Benjamin J.B. Lipscomb on How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics, in The Women Are Up to Something
  
  
• Santiago Gamboa's latest, The Night Will Be Long
  
  
• Brigitte Reimann's classic East German novel, Franziska Linkerhand
  
  
• A 1969 thriller by Ross Thomas -- writing as Oliver Bleeck --, The Brass Go-Between
  
  
• Hans Lebert's 1960 Austrian classic, Die Wolfshaut
  
  
• Louise Erdrich's new novel, The Sentence
  
  
• Swiss author Markus Werner on the trail of his great-great-grandfather, in Der ägyptische Heinrich
  
  
• Another Domenico Starnone translated by Jhumpa Lahiri, Trust
  
  
• Paul Cain's classic 1933 thriller, Fast One
  
  
• Walter Mehring's The Lost Library: The Autobiography of a Culture
  
  
• Hervé Le Tellier's bestselling 2020 prix Goncourt-winning novel, The Anomaly
  
  
• Willem Frederik Hermans' A Guardian Angel Recalls, now in English
  
  
• Ken Follett's latest, sure-to-be-a-blockbuster novel, Never
  
  
• Kurt Gödel's Philosophische Notizbücher: Band 1 / Philosophical Notebooks: Volume 1
  
  
• John le Carré's posthumous thriller, Silverview

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