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A Literary Saloon and Site of Review
Index of Books from selected Imprints and Publishers
under review
at
the complete review
This Index lists books at the complete review from selected (generally specialised) imprints and publishers.
(Even though these make up the bulk of books under review, we do not include titles from larger publishers (Knopf, FSG, Faber, Suhrkamp, etc.), nor titles from some prominent series (Penguin Classics, Modern Library).
At this time we are also not inculding imprints or publishers from whom we only have a single title under review.)
The publishers and series indexed here are:
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Aflame Books
Aflame Books: "It publishes, in English translation, works from Africa, Latin America and the Middle East; works whose brilliance has been hidden from the English-speaking world by the barriers of culture and language".
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American University in Cairo Press
American University in Cairo Press: "publish a wide range of scholarly monographs, reference works, and general books on ancient and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as a variety of Arabic literature in English translation".
Note that some AUC Press titles have been republished by other domestic imprints in the US and/or UK.
- ALAIDY, Ahmed: Being Abbas el Abd (B+)
- ALI, Idris: Poor (B)
- al-ASWANY, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building (B+)
- FARGHALI, Ibrahim: The Smiles of the Saints (B+)
- al-GHITANI, Gamal:
- HAKKI, Yahya: The Lamp of Umm Hashim (B+)
- HIMMICH, Bensalem:
- IBRAHIM, Sonallah:
- JOHNSON-DAVIES, Denys: Memories in Translation (B)
- KHUDAYYIR, Mohammed: Basrayatha (B)
- MAHFOUZ, Naguib:
- al-MOHAIMEED, Yousef: Wolves of the Crescent Moon (B+)
- QASIM, Abd al-Hakim: Rites of Assent (B)
- SHALABY, Khairy: The Lodging House (B)
- al-TAHAWY, Miral: Blue Aubergine (B+)
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Archipelago Books
Archipelago Books: "an eclectic selection of new international literature and world classics that remain unavailable in translation".
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Bitter Lemon Press
Bitter Lemon Press: "The best literary crime and romans noirs from Europe, Africa and Latin America.".
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Canongate - The Myths
Canongate - The Myths: "A bold re-telling of legendary tales -- The Myths series gathers the world's finest contemporary writers for a modern look at our most enduring myths".
International, multi-publisher sereies; see other publishers involved.
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Codex
Codex: alternative UK publisher
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Dalkey Archive Press
Dalkey Archive Press: "the finest works of world literature from the past 100 years"
- As you were saying (-), ed. Fabrice Rozié, Esther Allen, and Guy Walter
- ABATZOGLOU, Petros: What does Mrs. Freeman Want ? (B)
- ALBERT-BIROT, Pierre: The First Book of Grabinoulor (B)
- ALEXIEVICH, Svetlana: Voices from Chernobyl (B)
- BITOV, Andrei: Pushkin House (B+)
- BROPHY, Brigid: In Transit (B+)
- DEL PASO, Fernando: Palinuro of Mexico (A)
- DIMOCK, Peter: A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family (B+)
- ECHENOZ, Jean: Chopin's Move (B)
- ERNAUX, Annie: Cleaned Out (A-)
- FLAUBERT, Gustave: Bouvard and Pécuchet (A-)
- FOSSE Jon: Melancholy (B+)
- GASS, William H.:
- GOMBROWICZ, Witold: A Kind of Testament (B)
- GOSPODINOV, Georgi: Natural Novel (B+)
- GOYTISOLO, Juan: Quarantine (B)
- GRAY, Alasdair: Poor Things (A)
- GREEN, Jack: Fire the Bastards ! (B)
- JOUET, Jacques: Mountain R (B)
- KIŠ, Danilo:
- KOJIMA Nobuo: Embracing Family (B+)
- KONKKA, Anita: A Fool's Paradise (A-)
- KOUMANDAREAS, Menis: Koula (B)
- MARKSON, David:
- MATHEWS, Harry:
- MOSLEY, Nicholas:
- MOTTE, Warren F. (ed.): Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature (B+)
- OUŘEDNÍK, Patrik: Europeana (A-)
- QUENEAU, Raymond: The Last Days (B-)
- QUIN, Ann:
- ROLIN, Olivier:
Hotel Crystal (B)
- ROUBAUD, Jacques:
- SALVAYRE, Lydie:
- SHKLOVSKY, Viktor:
- TOUSSAINT, Jean-Philippe: Television (B+)
- TSEPENEAG, Dumitru: Vain Art of the Fugue (B)
- UGRESIC, Dubravka: Thank You for Not Reading (B+)
- UNT, Mati: Things in the Night (B)
- VERHAEGHEN, Paul: Omega Minor (A-)
- WHITE, Curtis:
- IVKOVIĆ, Zoran: Hidden Camera (B)
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Glas
Glas New Russian Writing: "the most comprehensive source on contemporary Russian literature in translation"
- KRZHIZHANOVSKY, Sigizmund: Seven Stories (A-)
- MARIENGOF, Anatoly:
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Green Integer
Green Integer: offering "a wide variety of works by leading artists, critics and historians" -- and in a truly handy format !
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Hard Case Crime
Hard Case Crime: "dedicated to reviving the vigor and excitement, the suspense and thrills -- the sheer entertainment -- of the golden age of paperback crime novels"
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Japanese Literature Publishing Project (JLPP)
Japanese Literature Publishing Project: "an initiative of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan promoting the translation and publication of Japanese contemporary fiction."
Various publishers.
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Loeb Classical Library
Loeb Classical Library: "the only series of books which, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature"
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New York Review Books
New York Review Books: publishing NYRB Classics and New York Review Collections
- "The NYRB Classics series reintroduces some of the many remarkable books that have fallen out of print, or simply out of sight, in recent years."
- BURTON, Robert: The Anatomy of Melancholy (A+)
- CHATTERJEE, Upamanyu: English, August (A-)
- FEARING, Kenneth: The Big Clock (B+)
- JONES, David: In Parenthesis (A)
- MICHAUX, Henri: Miserable Miracle (B)
- OLESHA, Yuri: Envy (B)
- SIMENON, Georges:
- SOROKIN, Vladimir: Ice (B+)
- WAT, Aleksander: My Century (B) (with Czeslaw Milosz)
- WHITE, Patrick: Riders in the Chariot (A)
- New York Review Collections: "This series includes both volumes of essays by distinguished writers (...) as well as compilations of essays by a number of writers"
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Northwestern University Press - Writings from an Unbound Europe
Northwestern University Press - Writings from an Unbound Europe: "the most comprehensive series of literature in translation into any language from the former Communist countries of Eastern Europe."
- ALBAHARI, David:
- ANDRUKHOVYCH, Yuri: Perverzion (B+)
- BAZDULJ, Muharem: The Second Book (B+)
- BIEŃCZYK, Marek: Tworki (B+)
- ELSIE, Robert (ed.): Balkan Beauty, Balkan Blood (B+)
- GOSPODINOV, Georgi: And Other Stories (B)
- HIRAL, Josef: A Bohemian Youth (B+)
- JANCAR, Drago:
- NAUM, Gellu: Zenobia (B)
- PEKIĆ, Borislav: How to Quiet a Vampire (A-)
- SELIMOVIC, Mesa:
- SMILEVSKI, Goce: Conversation with Spinoza (A-)
- UGRESIC, Dubravka:
- URSU, Liliana: Angel Riding a Beast (B)
- VELIČKOVIĆ, Nenad: Lodgers (B+)
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Open Letter
Open Letter: "a literary press that publishes twelve books annually, mostly novels, collections of short stories, and literary essays. We only publish books in translation".
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Prickly Paradigm Press
Prickly Paradigm Press: "devoted to giving serious authors free rein to say what's right and what's wrong about their disciplines and about the world".
- ELKINS, James: What Happened to Art Criticism ? (B)
- FISKESJÖ Magnus: The Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon, the Death of Teddy's Bear, and the Sovereign Exception of Guantánamo (B+)
- GEOGHEGAN, Thomas: The Law in Shambles (B+)
- LEHMANN, Chris: Revolt of the Masscult (B-)
- McCLOSKEY, Deirdre: The Secret Sins of Economics (B)
- PERLSTEIN, Rick: The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo (B)
- SILVERSTEIN, Michael: Talking Politics (B)
- WATERS, Lindsay: Enemies of Promise (B+)
- WEINBERGER, Eliot: 9/12 (B+)
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Pushkin Press
Pushkin Press: small list of mainly early 20th century Central European literature
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Short Books
Short Books: "strives to bridge the gap between publishing and journalism."
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Smart Pop
Smart Pop: "A series of anthologies on the best of pop culture"
- Coffee at Luke's (B)
ed. Jennifer Crusie - An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest
- Neptune Noir (B), ed. Rob Thomas - Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars
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