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Index of
Books Received and Acquired
= 2021 =
at
the complete review
This Index lists the books received and acquired at the complete review in 2021, 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 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 / 4 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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Books received/acquired in August, 2021
[48 books / 18 reviewed to date]
- Responses • Kafka's Prague, by Jiří Kolář (Twisted Spoon) [un+]
- The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi (Penguin Classics) [solicited]
- Here in Our Auschwitz, by Tadeusz Borowski (Yale University Press) [un+]
- The Bell, by Iris Murdoch (Vintage Classics) [$2.99]
- I Hate Martin Amis et al., by Peter Barry (Roaring Forties Press) [$3.91]
- The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Beacon Press) [$4.28]
- Fairy Tales at Fifty, by Upamanyu Chatterjee (4th Estate (India)) [$2.99]
- Afternoon Men, by Anthony Powell (Little, Brown and Co.) [$2.99]
- Young Pushkin, by Yury Tynyanov (The Rookery Press/Overlook Press) [$3.43]
- The Magus, by John Fowles (Signet) [$1.00]
- Japanese Tales of Mystery and Imagination Paperback, by Edogawa Rampo (Tittle) [$1.00]
- The Incarnations, by Susan Barker (Touchstone) [$2.00]
- The Setting Sun, by Dazai Osamu (New Directions) [$2.00]
- Novels & Essays, by Frank Norris (Library of America) [$3.50]
- Sister Carrie, Jennie Gerhardt, Twelve Men, by Theodore Dreiser (Library of America) [$3.50]
- Weathered Men and The Four Mirrors, by Quince Duncan (Palgrave Macmillan) [$2.50]
- The Western Contingent , by Jesse L. Anderson (Dalkey Archive Press) [un+]
- Pollak's Arm, by Hans von Trotha (New Vessel Press) [AR; un+]
- A Few Collectors, by Pierre Le-Tan (New Vessel Press) [AR; un+]
- The Transentients, by Sergio Missana (McPherson & Company) [ARC; solicited]
- The Angels of Perversity, by Remy de Gourmont (Dedalus) [un+]
- Monkey Man, by Ichikawa Takuji (Red Circle) [solicited]
- Ganbare ! Workshops on Dying, by Katarzyna Boni (Open Letter) [ARC; un+]
- In Concrete, by Anne Garréta (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- Daybook from Sheep Meadow, by Peter Dimock (Deep Vellum) [requested]
- A Story that Happens, by Dan O'Brien (Dalkey Archive Press) [requested]
- In the Shadow of the Yali, by Suat Derviş (Other Press) [un+]
- An Impossible Love, by Christine Angot (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Autumn Rounds, by Jacques Poulin (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Milongas, by Edgardo Cozarinsky (Archipelago Books) [ARC; un+]
- Rakes of the Old Court, by Mateiu Caragiale (Northwestern University Press) [solicited]
- Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden", by Kyokutei Bakin (Cornell University Press) [requested]
- Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth, by Wole Soyinka (Pantheon) [ARC; requested]
- The Love Parade, by Sergio Pitol (Deep Vellum) [ARC; requested]
- Beauty Salon, by Mario Bellatin (Deep Vellum) [ARC; un]
- Cremation, by Rafael Chirbes (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- His Name Was Death, by Rafael Bernal (New Directions) [ARC; catalogue]
- Principles of Cerebral Mechanics, by Charles Cros (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, by Alain-Paul Mallard (Wakefield Press) [un+]
- A Heart Divided, by Jin Yong (St. Martin's Griffin) [requested]
- The N'Gustro Affair, by Jean-Patrick Manchette (New York Review Books) [un+]
- The Anomaly, by Hervé Le Tellier (Other Press) [ARC; requested]
- Papa Hamlet, by Arno Holz and Johannes Schlaf (Rixdorf Editions) [solicited]
- Kapo, by Aleksandar Tišma (New York Review Books) [un+]
- Here Is A Body, by Basma Abdel Aziz (Hoopoe) [solicitd]
- 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 / 10 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 / 15 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 / 11 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 / 15 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 / 15 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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