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• 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
  
  
• Matt Madden's new comic, Ex Libris
  
  
• Mark McGurl on The Novel in the Age of Amazon, in Everything and Less
  
  
• Josephine Tey's classic mystery, The Daughter of Time
  
  
• Vladimir Sharov's big novel, Be as Children, now in English from Dedalus
  
  
• Kwon Yeo-sun's thriller, Lemon
  
  
• Pierre Senges' big novel of Ahab (Sequels)
  
  
• Jane Gardam's 1978, Booker-shortlisted novel, God on the Rocks
  
  
• Jean Ray's classic novel, Malpertuis, just re-issued by Wakefield Press
  
  
• Karl Ove Knausgaard's latest, The Morning Star
  
  
• Lydia Davis translates Dutch flash fiction, in A.L.Snijders' Night Train
  
  
• Anthony Burgess' magnum opus, Earthly Powers
  
  
• Suat Derviş' 1945 novel In the Shadow of the Yali, now in English, from Other Press
  
  
• The latest from Muriel Barbery, A Single Rose
  
  
• The first novel by Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in almost five decades, Chronicles From the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
  
  
• Javier Serena's Roberto Bolaño-novel, Last Words on Earth, now in English, from Open Letter
  
  
• The latest Jean-Patrick Manchette, just out from New York Review Books, The N'Gustro Affair -- which was also his first
  
  
• Yassin Adnan's Hot Maroc
  
  
• Benjamín Labatut's International Booker Prize-shortlisted When We Cease to Understand the World, now also out in a US edition
  
  
• Part One: An Ill-Considered Jest of Kyokutei Bakin's classic Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden", just out in English, in the Cornell East Asia Series
  
  
• Harald Voetmann's Pliny the Elder-novel, Awake, just about out in English, from New Directions
  
  
• Henry James' The American

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